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Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions. — Brian McBride

There are no superstitions but those you invent — Jack Lasenby

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It's up to the owner of a blanket to sleep on the blanket or to sleep in the blanket. — Kudakwashe Muzira

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

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over ... — Sarah Addison Allen

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. — Swami Vivekananda

Superstition is the spleen of the soul. — Alexander Pope

The things you believe in only as real as the superstitions you follow. — Mara Joaquin

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

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes. — David Niven

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

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

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. — Ulysses S. Grant

Jokes about Crazy Cat Ladies seem harmless enough, but at their core is a disturbing echo of the hysterical witch superstitions of the Middle Age. — Tom Cox

All people have their blind side-their superstitions. — Charles Lamb

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. — Tea Obreht

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. — Leo Tolstoy

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

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

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition. — Quintus Curtius Rufus

The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end. — Abdu'l- Baha

Superstitions and eccentric habits are a Western substitute for actual idols. — Edward T. Welch

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee. — Natalie Coughlin

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them — Michael Owen

In all superstition wise men follow fools. — Francis Bacon

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above! — Steve Maraboli

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition. — Edward Gibbon

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Come out, O lions, and shake off the ancient mysticism and prejudices. — Abhijit Naskar

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition. — Christopher Hitchens

Our Christianity has become superstitious. — Sunday Adelaja

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven. — Ezra Levant

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Theology is Classified Superstition. — Elbert Hubbard

The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years. — Robert M. Price

The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work. — Colin Cotterill

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response. — Ming-Dao Deng

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition. — Jerry A. Coyne

Good luck gets a bad rap due to superstitions. — Ashwin Sanghi

I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. — Bill Maher

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition! — RuPaul

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition. — Paul Kenneth Keller

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. — Anne Rice

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none. — Celia Green

New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject
art, money, sex, food, health. — Mason Cooley

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre. — James Thurber

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. — Hal Clement

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots. — H.L. Mencken

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

Christ ... an anarchist who succeeded. That's all. — Andre Malraux

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot. — Amy Adams

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

When superstitions enter the world of imagination, then intelligence and science become fiction. — Debasish Mridha

I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear. — Zach Johnson

If a rooster crows while you're thinking about a man," the fortuneteller had once told Maria, "then he's the one you'll marry. — Karen Cecil Smith

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. — Tryon Edwards

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

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

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

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

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. — Maimonides

The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow. — John L. Balderston

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. — Marlene Dietrich

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

There is superstition in avoiding superstition. — Francis Bacon

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

I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth. — Erich Ludendorff

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy. — Debasish Mridha

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

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

Let us pray for wisdom not for superstitions. — Debasish Mridha

Not all superstitions are dark and cruel. I once received a communication from the god Osiris. He was living at that time in a suburb of Boston. — Bertrand Russell

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

Superstitions are just coincidence or ignorance. — Ron Rash

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

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

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free. — Swami Vivekananda

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

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. — Charles Spurgeon

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions. — Garrett Fort