Superstition Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Superstition

Superstition Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Superstition quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate ... Choose science. — Carl Sagan

Superstition is that which we know in our minds to be rubbish. Faith is that which we hope in our hearts to be true. — R.A. Mathis

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions. — Gertrude Atherton

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

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship. — Seneca The Younger

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture. — Stefan Molyneux

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising. — Richard Whately

A curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information. — C. D. Broad

Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry ... — J.K. Rowling

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. — Chinua Achebe

Science is but one form of rationalism, while religion is the most common form of superstition. — Richard Dawkins

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. — Silius Italicus

Unfortunately, Feng Shui has mingled with superstition. Luckily, it's easy to expose myths. Don't think 'things', think 'energy'. — Stefan Emunds

I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion. — James Buchanan

The religious answer is not really religious if it's not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition. — Thomas Merton

...people don't think in churches.

[Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion.] — Robert Noyce

Christianity is such a silly religion. — Gore Vidal

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available. — Benjamin Haydon

But superstition, like belief, must die ... — Philip Larkin

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron De Montesquieu

Fake Canadian superstition: If you allow your pet bear to sleep in your bed, it will ruin your breathing by slowing it down or stopping it entirely. — Matthew Santoro

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted. — Jeff Bridges

Conscience without judgment is superstition. — Benjamin Whichcote

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

The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine. — E. M. Forster

It is superstition," she admitted. "But it might be true. — Jeff VanderMeer

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. — Richelle Mead

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza

Superstition is another word for Everyday life. — Lionel Suggs

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

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

Religion is not removed by removing superstition. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. — Gore Vidal

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

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed. — G.K. Chesterton

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. — Robert G. Ingersoll

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Thought is a primitive superstition. Reason is an irrational idea. — Ayn Rand

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true. — Stefan Molyneux

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. — Jonah Goldberg

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies — Edward Gibbon

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. — John Muir

Such heinous acts could superstition prompt.12 — Titus Lucretius Carus

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition. — Peter Boghossian

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition — Baruch Spinoza

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up. — Donald E. Westlake

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. — Charles Lindbergh

There is superstition in avoiding superstition. — Francis Bacon

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy] — Abraham Lincoln

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms. — Susan Neiman

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean. — James F. Cooper

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy. — Stefan Molyneux

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. — Edmund Blake

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here. — Aristophanes

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down. — Andrew Scott

Human beings ... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition. — Francis Crick

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control. — Mario Bunge

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. — Baron D'Holbach

There are only two sources of human vice - idleness and superstition, and only two virtues - activity and intelligence. — Leo Tolstoy

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst. — Andrew Dickson White

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. — Lindley Murray

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence
and punishes those who do. — Peter Boghossian

Superstition is but the fear of belief. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. — Michel De Montaigne

I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better. — Penelope Cruz

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. — Francis Bacon

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. — Aldous Huxley

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty? — Isaac Asimov

Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science. — Carl Sagan

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. -Babe Ruth — Babe Ruth

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

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man. — Thomas Paine

The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus. — Sunday Adelaja

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense. — H.L. Mencken

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition. — David Wright

I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance," Barrett says. "Superstition and romance are not the same thing. — Michael Cunningham

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence. — George Holyoake

Superstition is the poison of the mind. — Joseph Lewis

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force. — Ayn Rand

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition. — Laurence Sterne

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist — Mahatma Gandhi

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far. — Thomm Quackenbush

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. — Leigh Bardugo

Superstition, then and now, is not just a threat to the truth. It's also a threat to national security. — Steven Johnson

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! — Swami Vivekananda

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition. — William Gilmore Simms

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. — Marcus Tullius Cicero