Superstition Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

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.

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

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

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.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

No, my superstition might be not having any. Come playoff time, you like to get into routines, but that's all. You get into superstitious things and it makes you think about other things.

The value in superstition is that for athletes it gives an incredible confidence, because you really believe this thing works.

We have folklore and superstition and magic. The first book I ever wrote was on magic incantations written by Jewish magi.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

The tomb-sweepers' feelings are understandable. But burning these messy things -- not only is it mired in feudal superstition, but it just appears low and vulgar.