Quotes About Superstition

Set a church clock wrong to fool the devil, my mother always told me. But in this case I suspect the devil is not fooled. Not for a minute.

Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation

We make our own luck. If you believe in ill luck, it will surely come.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.†

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing [superstition], and love those who love you.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Robert Boyle, the English scientist largely responsible for the creation of the modern discipline of chemistry, interviewed miners in the 1670s in an attempt to discover whether the men had met with any "subterraneous demons . . . in what shape and manner they appear; what they portend and what they do.

Baseball is a ceremony, a ritual, as surely as sacrificing a goat beneath a full moon is a ritual.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but remember it didn't work for the rabbit!

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

How odd, that prayer seems foolish to some people who base their lives on media trends, superstition, instinct, hormones, social propriety, or even astrology.)

?? ????? ???? ?????? ?? ???????? ???????????? ?????? "c'ai takèissa 'na medà meshônà fàita a paraqua" – "?? ?? ?? ????? ?????? ????, ??? ?? ? ?????????".

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

The problem with omens is that they never come with an illustrated pamphlet explaining what they mean.

wonder sometimes why those who theorize about the human mind can so easily believe in the existence of things they cannot see or measure, or in any meaningful way confirm as real—such as the id, the ego, the unconscious I—but nevertheless dismiss as superstitious those who believe the body has a soul. The woman brought the horse to a halt