Quotes About Superstition

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Did you think you had educated the superstition out of those people?' 'I certainly did think it.' 'Well, then, you may unthink it.

This, together with his hanging his coat on the floor on one side of a chair, and his vest on the floor on the other side, and piling his pants on the floor just in front of the same chair, and then contemplating the general result with superstitious awe, and finally pronouncing it "too many for him" and going to bed with his boots on, led us to fear that something he had eaten had not agreed with him.

Again, Himmel Street was a trail of people, and again, Papa left his accordion. Rosa reminded him to take it, but he refused. 'I didn't take it last time,' he explained, 'and we lived.' War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition.

Just bad luck. That's what you say. Of no consequence. That's what you make yourself believe- because deep down, you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come.

War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition.

The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

Religions are like glow-worms: they need darkness in order to shine. A certain degree of general ignorance is the condition for the existence of any religion.

Religions are the children of ignorance, and they do not long survive their mother. - On Religion

Still, I told myself, you really can't make much of one study of one Friday the thirteenth in one town.

Nonetheless, phobia about Friday the thirteenth is widespread.

Michael Jordan always had to wear University of North Carolina boxer shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform.

Baseball players, for example, are notoriously superstitious.

that no one was volunteering to take Friday the thirteenth.

theology, the doctrine of God, which is always attacked and ridiculed by philosophy, which claims to be wisdom itself. And medicine, which always questions the validity of philosophy, and doesn't consider theology a science but a superstition…

Signs with missing letters can only mean bad things.

IN 1692 THE Massachusetts Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft.

If I don't speak the name of this thing, it still feels like it isn't real. Does that make any sense?' The ColU spoke to them now, whispering in their earphones. 'It makes plenty of sense, Mardina Eden Jones Guthfrithson. The power of names: probably one of the oldest human superstitions, going back to the birth of language itself. To deny a name is to deny a thing reality. And yet now it is time to name names.

Bob says that when you're alone, and you light a cigarette, and the cigarette is only half way lit that means someone is thinking about you. He also says that when you find a penny, it's only lucky if it's heads-up. He says the best thing to do is find a lucky penny when you're with someone and give the other person goodluck ".

triskaidekaphobic.

Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human beings, unconsciously reflect in their theories the social and political constraints of their times.

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

Sane people don't sacrifice children on the altar of probability. That's not science, it's superstition.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept