Quotes About Superstition

In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.

People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.

If you make a wish at 11:11 on 11/11/11 it will come true. Provided that your wish was to waste seconds of your life.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

No, I'm talking about undiscovered science. A thousand years ago, people believed the earth was flat. Five hundred years ago, doctors thought diseases were caused by an imbalance in the humors. A century ago, visiting the moon was the stuff of fantasists. There are always things we don't know yet, and they always look like superstition until we understand.

Most scholars now put the number of people killed for the crime of witchcraft from the late fifteenth century through the seventeenth century at between forty and fifty thousand

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

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

Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst

Estoy rezando: "Que dure", y para presionar a Dios voy a tocar madera sin patas.

More often than not, superstition wins the day as it lifts the burden of responsibility off human shoulders and places it squarely on the much stronger ones of magic.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

On Halloween, Wendell, Floyd, and Mona were walking home from school when a black cat crossed their path. "Don't pet it, Floyd!" cried Wendell. "Don't you know that black cats are bad luck?" "That's just an old wives' tale," Mona said. "Besides, what could happen?" Wendell merely shook his head. "Anything can happen on Halloween.

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

Werewolves and silver bullets!" Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.