Superstitions Quotes

375 Superstitions quotes by 249 unique authors

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. — Tea Obreht
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions.… — Ruta Sepetys
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern… — George Gilder
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether… — Benjamin Disraeli
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. — Tucker Carlson
I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can… — Stephen Dobyns
I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along… — Gil Gerard
You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition… — Krzysztof Kieslowski
For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition… — Marilyn French
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and… — Thomas Jefferson
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! — Swami Vivekananda
Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as… — Seth MacFarlane
The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life.… — Sadegh Hedayat
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow? — Garrett Fort
I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of… — Stu Jackson
The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition. — Kedar Joshi
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. — Tryon Edwards
It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other… — Ludwig von Mises
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. — Theophrastus
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are… — Luther Burbank
Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day. — Charles Fort
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. — Mark Hopkins

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