Quotes About Superstition

One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences

Born, as her name indicated, on the first day of the Persian spring, she had the superstitious nature of people whose birthdays fall on the cusps of changing seasons. She was forever looking over her shoulder for fear that she had stepped on cracks or wandered under a ladder. Bahar's inherent nervousness had escalated to a deeper malaise in recent years, the result of unspeakable events that had left indelible scars.

Susanna, who is superstitious, has put a piece of rowan wood in the pocket of her black dress to guard against ghosts

A rooster crowing in a doorway means visitors are coming. An old Scottish superstition. The

Taboo is not a word considered with any seriousness in the Old World.

They are sitting shiva, Monsieur Trudeau," I said. "That is a seven-day ritual. They cannot transact business during those seven days." "Preposterous!" Again his voice rose. "We should let the scientific exploration of Mars fall behind for some primitive superstition? The body is buried, man, move on.

In early 2007, in response to countless customer complaints, Brussels Airlines reluctantly altered the thirteen dots in their airline logo to fourteen.9 If you want to sit in the thirteenth row on your Air France, KLM, Iberia (or for that matter, Continental) flight, you're plain out of luck, as there isn't one.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

Thus a certain Silvanus refused to look at the sun because it was a physical light. At last, however, he saw in a vision that hell was full of monks.5 God undoubtedly abominates and condemns the superstitions of those men.

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

a perverse and unruly superstition

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake

In the old days a man made a name for himself by being generous and wise, but now he has nothing to be generous with, no jobs, no money; and as far as our traditional wisdom is concerned, our men are being told by the white missionaries, teachers, and employers that it is merely savage superstition.

and so we persist in using suboptimized measurements out of superstition and habit.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.-Adam Smith

The purpose of science is to find out where the limits of possibility end. When we have achieved that – and we shall – there will be no more magic, no more superstition, there will just be what is.

The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world.

The Dark Ages never ended.

People believed in witches because it made things easier. People don't just need an enemy, they need an explanation. And it's often useful, in unsettled times, where ignorance is

Possibility is everything that has ever happened. The purpose of science is to find out where the limits of possibility end. When we have achieved that — and we shall — there will be no more magic, no more superstition, there will just be what is. Once it was impossible that this globe we are on wasn't flat. It is not for science — and certainly not for medicine — to flatter our expectations of Nature. Quite the opposite.