Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I am not really superstitious but do follow certain established norms. — Krystle D'Souza Copy Share Image
People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid. — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“The compulsively superstitious person is also very often a serious believer in fate; that was the case with Perry.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I have had the same shinpads since I was eight or nine years old. Everyone laughs in the dressing room because of… — Ander Herrera Copy Share Image
Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Somehow, despite all the science homebrewing requires, I’d become irrationally superstitious.” — Lucy Burningham Copy Share Image
“wonder sometimes why those who theorize about the human mind can so easily believe in the existence of things they cannot see… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I had rehearsed losing him not just to ward off suffering by taking it in small doses beforehand, but, as all superstitious… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived… — William James Copy Share Image
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People who grew up in the Ozark Mountains are among the most superstitious group in American history. Their intuitions generally involved things… — Rolland Love Copy Share Image
“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor.… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
