Superstitious Quotes

125 quotes by 119 authors

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most… — John Quincy Adams
I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious. — Penelope Cruz
I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I… — Ray Davies
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. — Umberto Eco
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of… — Lafcadio Hearn
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. — Henry James
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell
I'm only superstitious on the tennis court. — Rafael Nadal
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in… — John Selden
Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie… — Matt Smith
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it… — Steven Wright
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by… — Edward Gibbon
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their… — Woody Guthrie
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
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe.… — Eric Ambler
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious,… — H P Lovecraft
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… — Angela Carter
â€¦being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how… — Anne Rice
What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food? — Wendell Berry

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