Superstition Quotes

334 Superstition quotes by 230 unique authors

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. — Polly Toynbee
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? — Judith Viorst
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. — Voltaire
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. — Voltaire
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. — Voltaire
I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really… — Jimmy Wales
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. — Alice Walker
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and… — Adam Weishaupt
Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend. — Richard Matheson
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. — John Adams
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is… — M. Scott Peck
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. — Philip Jose Farmer
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and… — Carl Sagan
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden… — Alice Hoffman
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the… — Jostein Gaarder
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. — Thomas Jefferson
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad… — Carl Sagan
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of… — Jawaharlal Nehru
The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I… — Anne Rice
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer… — Mahatma Gandhi
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the… — D. A. Carson
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered… — George Carlin

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