Superstition Quotes

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 equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

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.

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

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 not wearing black.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.

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.

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

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

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?