Superstitions Quotes · Page 7

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

— Edward Gibbon

I have routines but not superstitions.

— Garbine Muguruza

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

— Benjamin Whichcote

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

— Donald E. Westlake

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

— Denis Diderot

But superstition, like belief, must die.

— Philip Larkin

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

— Anonymous

“Values should dictate a society, not superstitions.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

— RuPaul

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

— Charles Spurgeon

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

— Baron d'Holbach

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do…

— Michael Owen

“The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.”

— Colin Cotterill

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

— Ludwig von Mises

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of…

— Shirley Hazzard

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

— Dion Fortune

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“superstitions, our worries and our wars; they will gawk at our cruelty. They will study our art and argue over our history.…

— Mark Manson

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and…

— Emma Goldman

“A cautionary tale I had carried with me from China, and which I firmly believed, was that anyone who attempted to have…

— Jung Chang

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon

Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I used to be very superstitious, and then I got too much into that. I just try to stay away from all…

— John Collins

“I have my superstitions, though. They could be termed quirks. I have to add up all numbers: there are some people I…

— Truman Capote

Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant,…

— Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is…

— Mark Hopkins

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent…

— Boris Sidis

…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people…

— Terry Pratchett

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

— Carl Sagan

In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with…

— Gore Vidal

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

— Mark Twain

I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.

— Elie Wiesel

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

— Gore Vidal

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

— Stephen King

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

— Theophrastus

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

— H. L. Mencken