Top 25 Superstitions Quotes of 237 - Page 10

All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

People, Superstitions, Sides

Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.32

Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

Carl Sagan

Feel Good, Darkness, Superstitions

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

Blaise Pascal

Different, Superstitions, Submission

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.

Blaise Cendrars

Vocabulary, Soul, Superstitions

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Benjamin Whichcote

Superstitions, Judgment, Conscience

Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.46

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Benjamin Haydon

Mean, Superstitions, Helping

Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.409

Superstition has its practical uses.

Barbara Mertz

Use, Superstitions, Practicals

I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.

Anna Journey

Shrimp, Cows, Superstitions

Source: therumpus.net

Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.

Andre Malraux

Order, Civilization, Superstitions

"Picasso's Mask". Book by Andre Malraux, 1976.