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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
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
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
All people have their blind side-their superstitions.
— Charles Lamb
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
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
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
We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Theology is Classified Superstition.
— Elbert Hubbard
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
Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.
— Paul Kenneth Keller
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subjectart, money, sex, food, health. — Mason Cooley
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
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
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
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
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
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
