Quotes About Superstition

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

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

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song You're the One That I Want from the musical Grease three times in a single day - seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or whatever - it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset.

In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song "You're the One That I Want" from the musical Grease three times in a single day—seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or wherever—it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset. In contrast, the phantom odor of scorched toast merely means that a deceased loved one continues to watch over you and protect you from harm.

They knew a lot, the dead. How many times had she said to Harry they were the world's greatest untapped resource? It was true. All they'd seen, all they'd suffered, all they'd triumphed over—lost to a world in need of wisdom. And why? Because at a certain point in the evolution of the species a profound superstition was sewn into the human heart that the dead were to be considered sources of terror rather than enlightenment.

Your kind has a superstitious terror of things ugly and broken; you fear that their condition may somehow infect you.

Your kind has a supersitious terror of things ugly and broken; you gear that their conditon may somehow infect you.

Cuando la fe se atrofia, parece como que se deforma o desfigura. ¿Acaso no hemos visto también en el terreno cultural, es decir, no sólo a escala individual sino social, cómo la fe reprimida degenera en superstición?

She wrote poetry. She was poetically superstitious. She said she knew she would die soon after my sixteenth birthday, and did.

unusual in the Roman period.2 In the eyes of many of that time, early Christianity was odd, bizarre, in some ways even dangerous. For one thing, it did not fit what "religion" was for people then. Indicative of this, Roman-era critics designated it as a perverse "superstition." Yet the very features of early Christianity that made it odd and objectionable in the ancient Roman setting have become now unquestioned assumptions about religion in much of the modern world.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. Itis a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone." -Rod Serling, from The Twilight Zone.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. Itis a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone." -Rod Serling, from The Twilight

Pues en Bulgaria dicen: Si pones una vela para Dios, pon dos para el diablo.

Devils out! Fortune in!" they chanted. Bedding aired

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

Superstition is the reservoir of all truths.