Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“Spilled blood and superstition are the basis of the world. Man is not the only creature who kills for bread, or love,… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“So long as any large group of persons, anywhere on this earth, believe the ancient superstition that some Authority is responsible for… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a… — Stu Jackson Copy Share Image
In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
“The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“The dreadful superstition that it is possible to foresee the future shape of society serves to justify all kinds of violence in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the crucial difficulty with which we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“God is our final say in who and what's negative and who and what's positive in our lives. It is best not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous,… — James Grant Copy Share Image
In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“Zeal to expunge every trace of Romish superstition resulted in text scrutinizing and “arguments from silence” that forbade traditions such as the… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“On Atheism – One man’s religion is another man’s superstition and, when you’re an atheist, they’re all superstitions.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“ Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Superstitions of all kinds break out on all hands even at this enlightened stage of the world’s history, and there is no… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I ask you, as a citizen, is it a crime to go to the temple? And if I am propagating superstition by… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
“If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature...Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller Fav.” — Yolanda Ramos Copy Share Image
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow? — Garrett Fort Copy Share Image
