Superstitions Quotes

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

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

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 and beats me to it.

Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.

Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.