Starting out a trip on Friday the 13th is considered to bring misfortune for you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you change your bed on Friday the 13th, you will see bad dreams throughout the night. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a… — David Wright Copy Share Image
“Didn’t Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn’t it expert in superstition?” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I… — John Selden Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, Feng Shui has mingled with superstition. Luckily, it’s easy to expose myths. Don’t think ‘things’, think ‘energy’.” — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Kyle took in a breath. “While you were doing freaky stuff with Adam—as fine as he is—did you figure out where he… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I get dressed in the same way. Its not a superstition, at least I tell myself its not. Its more a way… — Dario Franchitti Copy Share Image
“It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Man, it is true, can, by combination, surmount all his real enemies, and become master of the whole animal creation: but does… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“ [How "magical charms" work for healing:] [It is Divine Love that heals and cures. But many people have difficulty accessing the… — Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
“You can make a successful run for political office in this country without an especially thick résumé, any exceptional talent for expressing… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
“By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the… — James George Frazer Copy Share Image
I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“Modern society must show courage and willingness to replace common superstitions with common sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If everyone can do it, it's science. If only a few can, then it's witchcraft, or superstition, or whatever you like to… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances,… — David Hume Copy Share Image