Quotes About Superstition

I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe.

Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Your differences are what make you unique. They're what make you special. You have nothing in common with these ignorant retches who thrive on superstition and fear. You were meant for greatness.

Ida knew that she was fighting ignorance and superstition every bit as much as she was fighting poor hygiene and disease.

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy

Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.

Paradoxically, the occult can often become the concern, in different modes, of both the least intelligent and also the most aberrantly intelligent human beings, with those soundly in the middle of the bell curve often unable to tell the difference between genuine intellectual exploration of the universe's unfathomable and mysterious structure and pre-literate superstition.

É curioso como o pensamento mergulha no inverosímil, como se permite fazê-lo momentaneamente, como imagina ou se torna supersticioso para descansar um pouco ou encontrar alívio, como é capaz de negar os factos e fazer o tempo retroceder, nem que seja um instante. Como se parece com o sonho.

Bad luck to your mother.

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, still we hesitate to admit the validity of our newfound convictions.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.

If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had, or if the Nile had not, risen beyond its banks; if the earth had shaken, or if the temperate order of the seasons had been interrupted, the superstitious Pagans were convinced that the crimes and the impiety of the Christians, who were spared by the excessive lenity of the government, had at length provoked the divine justice.

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

According to the maxims of universal toleration, the Romans protected a superstition which they despised.

I shall not, I trust, be accused of superstition; but I must remark that, even in this world, the natural order of events will sometimes afford the strong appearances of moral retribution.