Quotes About Superstition

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise—freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view—that all ideas are determined by material relationships—is the materialist superstition.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

Dark wings, dark words, me mother used to say, but when the birds fly silent, seems to me that's even darker.

The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don't make anybody long-lived or useful.

The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its total temper. To deny this would seem impossible, yet it is done daily; for there is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition; and candor and a sense of justice are, in such a case, the first things lost.

You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and your fat-free diets. You are the superstitious ones. You convince yourself you can cheat death, and you are absolutely offended when you learn that you can't. You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee.

A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shepherd's delight.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

A leap year Is never a good sheep year.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.

I don't walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella in a room. I have always been superstitious.

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

I'm unbelievably superstitious.

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.