Superstition Quotes

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Superstition is the poetry of life.