Superstition Quotes

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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.

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

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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.

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.

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

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.

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