Quotes About Superstition

Abstain from beans.

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

And then, the world is so full of old hate and superstition, and so many people are nice and tolerant and practical about it, that it's a wonder hell hasn't boiled over more often throughout history.

Bila ada Pamali turun, barang atau pakaian peninggalan orang mati dikumpulkan dan diletakan di gebrahe

Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Did you know that Halloween started because long ago people believed that one day a year at the end of the fall harvest, the spirits would return to walk the earth? On that day, people wore masks so the spirits wouldn't recognize them.

When I went to bed as a child, I was told, 'You don't know where you'll wake up.' When I ran in the garden, I was told that running was bad for the heart. Everything had its sinister aspect - milk shrinks the stomach, lemon thins the blood.

For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business - in fact, in any walk of life.

I think it is bad luck to put shoes on a table or walk under ladders.

I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I'm a very superstitious person. I'm walking onto the plane as we speak. I'm putting my hands on the outside of the plane and my feet are on the lip of the plane. I have to do it every time before I fly.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

When I was doing 'A Raisin in the Sun' with Sean Combs, we began in bed, and he would give me 10 kisses and an 11th for luck before the play began.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

when you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead. [sonnet 6]

a dime pierced with a nail hole so as to be worn about the ankle on a string for luck

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

More often than not religious rites are performed out of fear or superstition. And they are seldom questioned or examined.

Have you ever heard of rubbing dandelions under your chin? If it rubs off that means you're in love.