Quotes About Superstition

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

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.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.

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

There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.