Top 184 Superstitions Quotes & Sayings

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

I have too many psycho superstitions.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

I'm not usually the guy who believes in aliens, UFOs or superstitions.

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Superstitions add texture to life.

I actually rid myself of superstitions, but I do a quick 20-minute meditation before games.

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

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

We're all entitled to our superstitions.

I had some superstitions when I was little. And a winning pen is always a good thing to have.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

I don't have many superstitions, but I do have a few things I like to do out of routine and habit before a game.

I don't have any superstitions, because I am a Christian.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

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

I do not follow superstitions on court.

Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

I have routines but not superstitions.

Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.

I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.

The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

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

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

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.

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

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

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend left, he noticed a horseshoe nailed above Bohr's front door. He said to Bohr, accusingly, "Niels, you're a great scientist. You can't believe in superstitions." Bohr answered, "I don't, but apparently it works anyway."As with confirmation bias, we tend to lean toward superstitions that benefit us.

It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

I'm not superstitious. I don't really believe in star signs, sorry, or superstitions.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

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

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.

All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.

I don't know how to pray and don't believe in any superstitions, but my belief in myself is very strong.