This weeks featured superstition quotations:
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
Proverb
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of
other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life,
they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
Sarah Bernhardt
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.
William Robertson Smith
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that
virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
A life full of bad luck is better than a life hindered by superstition.
Stuart Macfarlane
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started
to go anywhere, accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic
fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The
child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and
perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Michael Malone
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Andrew W. Mathis
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing.
Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you
might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under
the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
Henry Miller
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as
superstitions.
Thomas Huxley
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and
not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over
the other.
Francis Bacon
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of
other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life,
they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
Sarah Bernhardt
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Marguerite Blessington
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the
human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in
painting, and in music.
Denis Diderot
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich
We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. Ideas
of the Stone Age exist side by side with the latest scientific thought. Only
a fraction of mankind has emerged from the Dark Ages, and in the most lucid
brains, as Logan Pearsall Smith has said, we come upon nests of woolly
caterpillars. Seemingly sane men entrust their wealth to stargazers and
their health to witch doctors. Giant planes throb through the stratosphere,
but half their passengers are wearing magic amulets and are protected from
harm by voodoo incantations. Hotels boast of express elevators and a
telephone in every room, but omit thirteen from all floor and room numbers
lest their guests be ill at ease.
Bergen Evans
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
James A. Froude
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all
other adverse influences.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt
superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence
cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning
comprehended.
Lactantius
We're not as materialistic and incometax conscious as we think. At the
moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange
ways sex crimes, black masses.
Terence Fisher
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann von Goethe
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols it is all
that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood,
of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
William Hazlitt
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only
temptation.
William Hazlitt
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling
tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be
grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it
is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily
taken by the throat and destroyed.
Victor Hugo
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as
superstitions.
Thomas Henry Huxley
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous
combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us
superstition plus scientism.
Edward Abbey
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos
offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain
unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behaviour
takes.
Freda Adler
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent
sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog
his race.
William Kingdon Clifford
Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition
waiting in ambush.
Platen
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as
heresies and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as
religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this
is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are
devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
Bryan Magee
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think
things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives
under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
Its power over usNot all are free
Who make mock of their chains.
Nathan the Wise, 1779
Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not
superstitions.
Brian McBride
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