Superstition Quotes

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.

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.

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

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

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

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.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

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

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

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.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.