Quotes About Superstition

Virginity was regarded with superstitious awe, perhaps because there was so little of it.)

The concept of reincarnation takes away all the superstitions of heaven and hell. It's an endless cycle of life.

Modernity has hitched its wagon to science, a form of discourse that challenges and undermines traditional narratives. But in order to legitimize itself, science needs a story of progress from opinion and superstition to scientific truth and on to universal peace and happiness. The Enlightenment project is inseparable from its legitimizing metanarratives.

But to reject, marginalize, trivialize, or be suspicious of the sacraments (and quasi-sacramental acts such as lighting a candle, bowing, washing feet, raising hands in the air, crossing oneself and so forth) on the grounds that such things CAN be superstitious or idolatrous or that some people might suppose they are putting God in their debt, is like rejecting sexual relations in marriage on the grounds that it's the same act that in other circumstances constitutes immorality.

You don't have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there's a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.

What a weak, credulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the minds of men. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is.

Superstition and religion tell me that God responds to me. God is powerful, to be sure, but I am the real center of the universe, because God's actions are predicated upon mine. Religion and superstition say that I can make God dance by being good, and that by being bad I can force him from the floor.

Science... denude(s) all religious beliefs... denigrating them as irrational forms of superstition or myth regardless of their intrinsic rationality or value.

There will always be a war between light and darkness, between science and superstition, between education and ignorance. Ignorance is easier. It requires no study. Faith is the enemy of thought.

What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches he is surely going to die;

simple old woman helped me when I got back to our parts. And how, do you think? Merely by whispering some spell on it. What do you say about these medical men, my dear sir? I think they simply fool and befuddle us. Some old woman knows twenty times better than all these medical men.

The idea that everyone should have a house of his own is based on an ancient custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordaining that every dwelling should be evacuated on the death of its chief occupant.

No year is without one Friday the 13th, and no year has more than three.

6 of 14 years have one Friday the 13th. 6 of 14 years have two Friday the 13th. 2 of 14 years have three Friday the 13th.

In Germany, they were called the Icemanner, or Icemen Days, and people believed that it was never safe to plant until the Icemen were gone.

The old method for dealing with bad dreams is to tell them aloud above the toilet bowl, and then flush them away.

One for sorrow, two for joy. So they said when I was a child, but there were fewer Magpies then.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Because anarchic, 'lawless' thinking is no more than babble, it is defenceless in the face of the claims of superstition, of enthusiasm and of the ideas extolled by those who peddle religious and political dogmas.

Only a superstitious, melodramatic nerd would try to keep from being bored to death by scaring himself to death instead.

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

If you don't believe in ghosts, then I dare you to run around the old man's grave. Three times. Counterclockwise." John thought about it. "If I run round it counterclockwise, that'll bring bad luck," he said. "I believe in bad luck." " Bones

If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for.

Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.