Superstitions Quotes

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.

Superstition has its practical uses.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.

All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

Superstitions add texture to life.

I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke four or five bats during the streak, and I didn't cry over any of them.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

Such crimes has superstition caused.

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 branch.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

Help me to change the world is an invitation to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be free of superstitions and lies. And I'm not asking you to try to change the world. Don't try: just do it.

I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do.

One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.