Superstitions Quotes · Page 12

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

— Silius Italicus

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

— James F. Cooper

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

— V. S. Pritchett

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

— John Dewey

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

— Celia Green

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

— Garrett Fort

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

— Richard Matheson

As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We are often told by our friends and family members to not go to a particular place owing to some unkown energies…

— Anita Hassanandani Reddy

“It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology,…

— Abhijit Naskar

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes…

— Terence Fisher

“Not all superstitions are dark and cruel. I once received a communication from the god Osiris. He was living at that time…

— Bertrand Russell

Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars…

— Jon Spaihts

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of…

— Melvin B. Tolson

“He gave up. It was no use. She wasn’t listening. He was finding himself in a situation as old as mankind itself:…

— Romain Gary

But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There…

— Swami Vivekananda

I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in…

— Benson Henderson

...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the…

— John Cassian

The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,…

— Emma Goldman

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen…

— Phil Donahue

It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased…

— David Hume

I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition…

— Pankaj Mishra

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

— William Ralph Inge

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

— Howard Thompson

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

— Aldous Huxley

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

— Sam Levenson

“Not believing in some so-called superstitions is the biggest type of superstition!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

— George Eliot

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

— Shereen El Feki

“Cast a curse in Spanish at them, point at them and do creepy gestures, voodoo they understand ...”

— Scott Edward Shjefte

“If the flame of knowledge burns out then human contemplation is incarcerated by superstitions and nonsense.”

— Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very…

— Gore Vidal

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating…

— Edward Abbey

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming…

— Thomas Jefferson

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will…

— Ulysses S. Grant