Superstition Quotes and Sayings

I don’t believe in superstition because it brings bad luck!

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Organized religion is a product of a mix of superstition, delusion, divination and humanity to calm and control the human mind.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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Superstition is the death of a thinking mind.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
– Christopher Hitchens

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
– Voltaire

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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
– Francis Bacon

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Belief is the death of intelligence.
– Robert Anton Wilson

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What we don’t understand we can make mean anything.
– Chuck Palahniuk

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A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
– Groucho Marx

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
– Bertrand Russell

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What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
– Alice Walker

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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
– Edmund Burke

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A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is superstition.
– Jose Bergamin

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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
– George Herbert

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If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called ‘faith’, but if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!
– Jostein Gaarder

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Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
– Aldous Huxley

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The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.
– John Balderston

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Superstition, the mother of those hideous twins, fear and faith, from her throne of skulls, still rules the world.
– Robert Ingersoll

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I am all for curses and superstition, but there’s a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.
– Tahir Shah

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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
– Joseph Joubert

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Superstition is the backward going of human life.

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Superstition is the poison of the mind.
– Joseph Lewis

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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
– Marlene Dietrich

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Superstition is cowardice in the face of the Divine.
– Theophrastus

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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.

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So funny how we believe in something that has no existence and live by that superstition for a lifetime.

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Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Superstitions are the by-products of ignorance.

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My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.
– Donald E. Westlake

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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
– Denis Diderot

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

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Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
– Dalai Lama

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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
– George Iles

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You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition’s arms.
– Susan Neiman

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Superstition is another word for Everyday life.
– Lionel Suggs

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Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13.

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With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.
– Robert Ingersoll

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If superstitions enters, the brain is gone.
– Swami Vivekananda

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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational – but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
– Judith Viorst

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Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
– Swami Vivekananda

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Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.
– Dion Fortune

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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
– George Santayana

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A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
– George Bernard Shaw

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
– Doris Lessing

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The superstitious one will never walk upon a grave. It’s said that its sinful in the day and terrible bad luck in the dark.
– C.L. Bevill

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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
– Robert Ingersoll

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

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When it’s your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
– Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.
– W. R. Alger

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Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory.
– Charlotte Bronte

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

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.
– Francis Bacon

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Superstition is the poetry of life.
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
– Bernard Beckett

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All men are superstitious; they only differ in degrees.
– John Toland

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