Superstitions Quotes - Page 8

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

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.

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.

The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me.

But superstition, like belief, must die.

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.

Deep down am I superstitious? No. Do I believe in trying to be as kind as possible and as compassionate as possible because ultimately you're alone with yourself and your own conscience, and you want that to be as clear as possible? That's not superstition. You have to just try and stay pure and know what you value.

I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do.

Superstition is but the fear of belief.

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

Such crimes has superstition caused.

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

I had a bunch of different colored hats I wore. When I started wearing a pink one, we won five or six tournaments in a row, so I stuck with it. It started as superstition and now it's tradition—my hideous trademark that I always wear.

Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.