Quotes About Superstition

I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.

you should never bet money on a boxer who crosses himself before a fight, because any fighter relying on the grace of god is a dead duck.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Some 110,000 witch trials occurred at this time in Europe, roughly half of them ending in conviction and execution

I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.

We may be living in a modern world but people still believe in 'Icchadhari Nagins' and still visit temples to rid themselves of 'sarp dosh.'

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

I don't believe in voodoo.

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

I won't talk of bad luck. I don't believe in it.

My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that's the one I wore before I got to high school and had to pick a different one.

We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.

They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.

We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.

I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

There is a deep, ancient connection between gambling and divination.

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.

that states have often passed laws against fortune-tellers and prophets of doom.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag.

I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.