Superstition Quotes

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.

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

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

Superstition is the poetry of life.

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?

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

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

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

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.

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.