Quotes About Superstition

Our safety depends on being able to predict the evolutionary path that viruses and bacteria will take in the coming decades, just as safety in Snow's day depended on the rational application of the scientific method to public-health matters. Superstition, then and now, is not just a threat to the truth. It's also a threat to national security.

However profound the threats are that confront us today, they are solvable, if we acknowledge the underlying problem, if we listen to science and not superstition

While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers their due. What lies beyond the pale isn't always safe and secure. Outside the fence of state-sanctioned consciousness, there are, to be sure, peaks of profound insight and inspiration. But there are also the swamps of addiction, superstition, and groupthink, where the unprepared can get stuck.

I laughed right along with her, but inside I was dying. There were certain things that you just didn't joke about; it was simply bad luck. It was like pissing in the fate god's eye. If you did it long enough, he was certain to piss right back at you. And his urine stream was like a fucking fire hose. But

Para concebir una perfección se requiere cierto nivel ético y es indispensable alguna educación intelectual. Sin ellos pueden tenerse fanatismos y supersticiones; ideales, jamás. Los que viven debajo de ese nivel y no adquieren esa educación permanecen sujetos a dogmas que otros les imponen, esclavos de fórmulas paralizadas por la herrumbre del tiempo. Sus

A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.

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

They scorned neighbors who drank tea and concocted an entirely fictitious sickness narrative around the beverage; they claimed tea stunted growth, turned men into pygmies, and transformed women into…'God knows what.' They claimed tea was stomped into chests by Chinese men with dirty feet, that it was infested with bugs.

J'ai lu des millions de plaisanteries sur l'ignorance des anciens qui voyaient des esprits partout : il me semble que nous sommes beaucoup plus sots, nous qui n'en voyons nulle part.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

No luck with the garlic

If you accuse me of superstition, then you should call what he has rolling around his head madness. He'll end up in prison or as a writer, which is just as bad – a prisoner of his own stories.

I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of he main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

As the origin and basis of all religions, it cannot be the antagonist of any: it is indeed their purifier, revealing the valuable inner meaning of much that has become mischievous in its external presentation by the perverseness of ignorance and the accretions of superstition; but it recognises and defends itself in each, and seeks in each to unveil its hidden wisdom.

had originally been an Apache Indian hunting grounds, but in the mid-eighteen hundreds, the Apaches were edged out by prospectors mining for gold in the nearby Superstition Mountains.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition? Perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once? "Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.

Novalee Nation, seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight – and superstitious about sevens – shifted uncomfortably in the seat of the old Plymouth and ran her hands down the curve of her belly.

I'm not superstitious. But my mother doesn't allow me to cut my nails after dark. Earlier, I used to wear a scapular from Potta around my neck, given to me by a family member. But during my shoots, it's not possible, so I tie it on my right wrist for protection.

A bird in the house is a sign someone will die soon.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.