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Quotes About Superstition

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
~ Mark Hopkins
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
~ Umberto Eco
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
~ Ciaran Hinds
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
~ Gore Vidal
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
~ John Calvin
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
~ Claire Scovell LaZebnik
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
~ Joseph Joubert
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.
~ Alan Dundes
My spirituality and my beliefs are way beyond any superstition - I'm not a conformist - and I do have a scientific outlook towards religion. Our body is made up of different elements, and certain stones help align these elements.
~ Ekta Kapoor
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.
~ Deepak Chopra
I felt that I'd rather be lucky than good. That's the aspect I kept bringing to baseball. The more superstitions I had, the better off I'd have of finding more luck.
~ Wade Boggs
I don't have any superstitions, because I am a Christian.
~ Wanderlei Silva
I have to put my outfit on in the same order. It's sort of a superstition. The last thing I put on is the glasses.
~ Jenny Ryan
Black cats cross my path all the time. I'll break a mirror. I have no regard for superstition.
~ CM Punk
I have routines but not superstitions.
~ Garbine Muguruza
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
~ Polly Toynbee
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
~ Johan Huizinga
It's not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I'm a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.
~ Kris Humphries
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
~ Dar Williams
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
~ Bernard Beckett
I do believe a haircut makes you play better - I've experienced that before. I think it's confidence, it's routine, and it can also be superstition. Just like if you do your hair, it's not quite done right, and you have a bad day, you're not going to do that again the next day.
~ Daniel Sturridge