Superstitious Quotes

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I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

I'm not superstitious.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

I'm superstitious ... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

I am a very superstitious person.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

I'm superstitious a little bit.

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.

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 wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

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

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.