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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.
India's a fascinating country. It's constantly changing, but there's still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
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.
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.
I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.
The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.
A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.
As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.
The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what we've done.
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.
Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
I am finicky about making sure my sneakers are pretty tight. It is almost like a superstition for me.
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.
