Quotes About Superstition

An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora.

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of intellectuals.

The Indians think these fossils are the bones of serpents, which is to say reptiles. We think they were reptiles, too. They think these creatures were gigantic. So do we. They think these gigantic reptiles lived in the distant past. So do we. They think the Great Spirit killed them. We say we don't know why they disappeared—but since we offer no explanation of our own, how can we be sure theirs is superstition?

I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance, Barrett says. Superstition and romance are not the same thing.

For Bulgakov, however, the greatest underlying source of unease, amounting at times to despair, was something less tangible though very real to him, since it occurs as an ever-present refrain throughout these stories. This was the sense of being a lone soldier of reason and enlightenment pitted against the vast, dark, ocean-like mass of peasant ignorance and superstition... [in] the fearsome, pre-literate, mediaeval world of the peasantry

As we left they told us the old joke. To start a journey in a sandstorm is good luck.

If you believe a black cat is bad luck, people think you're crazy, but plenty of times, if I see a black cat down my street, I turn around and go the other way. Even if I'm late. I'll be late for the airport and be in a limo, and if I see a black cat, I'll be like, 'Sir, you have to turn around and go down the next street.'

The history of epilepsy can be summarised as 4,000 years of ignorance, superstition and stigma followed by 100 years of knowledge, superstition and stigma.

The liver was long thought to be the seat of courage, which is why a cowardly person was deemed "lily-livered.

It is superstitious to put one's hope in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

You wouldn't believe what spite and superstition there is in the world.

I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., I must ask the Count all about them.)

I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.

Get us to prove to the world that superstition is idiocy and all the demons are dust.

Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

The Ides of March have come.

T]he proud self-assurance with which traditional man reacted valiantly and superindividually against the unrighteous, armed with faith and the sword, and the spiritual impassibility that placed him in an a prior, absolute relation to a supernatural power not subject to the power of the elements, sensations, and natural laws-all these things have come to be considered mere 'superstitions.

I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn't think it's cursed?

It's perfectly fine if you don't believe in these "superstitions." In fact, it's better than fine—it's perfect. Because no matter what you believe, fukú believes in you.