Quotes of: Superstitions Keyword

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Candide and The Maid of Orleans

When it’s your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

Ain't She Sweet

If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!

Sophie's World

I can say with certitude that superstitions are more deleterious than black magic.

Sagey Malik

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.

Ken Leung

I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.

Nick Jonas

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.

Christopher Lasch

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.

Adam Weishaupt

One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Let's just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

Steven Blum

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)

Jose Bergamin

Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.

Henry Allingham

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

Judith Viorst

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunther

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Voltaire

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.

Evidence, Decision and Causality

Superstition though does tend to have a sharp end, and I didn’t want to find myself impaled on it.

The Liar's Key

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

Unpopular Essays

The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation.

Richard Luckhurst

I give no shit to what extent they believe in superstitions and fanaticism. But I will fight till death, if their fallacious belief hurts any individual.

M.F. Moonzajer