Superstitions Quotes · Page 9

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

— Duffy Daugherty

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a…

— Hal Clement

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

— Havelock Ellis

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

— Anonymous

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

— Lord Acton

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

— Northrop Frye

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

— Walker Percy

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection…

— Gretchen Rubin

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

— Edward Gibbon

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days…

— Adrian Desmond

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable…

— Ludwig von Mises

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that…

— Lenny Bruce

I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach…

— Paul Blanshard

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian…

— Harriet Martineau

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition…

— Eugen Drewermann

Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from…

— Samuel Sharpe

there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they…

— Sanal Edamaruku

One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or do anything, not to turn back, or stop…

— Ulysses S. Grant

It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“If decorum allowed, she would take tea at the hotel. Once inside, she might run into a rich northern gentleman who had…

— Karen Cecil Smith

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that…

— Joanne Harris

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

— Suetonius

New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

— Mason Cooley

I had some superstitions when I was little. And a winning pen is always a good thing to have.

— Judit Polgar

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

— H. L. Mencken

“I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the…

— Anonymous

I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

— Jason Akermanis

“Modern society must show courage and willingness to replace common superstitions with common sense.”

— Amit Kalantri

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

— Margery Allingham

“There is no such thing as a mind without superstition. Your belief that you have no superstition, is just another superstition.”

— Abhijit Naskar

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

— Thomas Huxley

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

— Zach Johnson

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

— Steven Weinberg

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

— Richelle Mead