I don’t believe in superstition because it brings bad luck!
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
Superstition is the death of a thinking mind.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Belief is the death of intelligence.
– Robert Anton Wilson
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
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
– Groucho Marx
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
– Christopher Hitchens
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is superstition.
– Jose Bergamin
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
What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
– Alice Walker
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational – but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
– Judith Viorst
What we don’t understand we can make mean anything.
– Chuck Palahniuk
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
– George Herbert
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
Superstition is the backward going of human life.
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
– Joseph Lewis
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
– Francis Bacon
Superstition, the mother of those hideous twins, fear and faith, from her throne of skulls, still rules the world.
– Robert Ingersoll
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
– Edmund Burke
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
If superstitions enters, the brain is gone.
– Swami Vivekananda
Superstition is cowardice in the face of the Divine.
– Theophrastus
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
– Dalai Lama
Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.
– John Balderston
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
– Marlene Dietrich
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
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
– George Bernard Shaw
So funny how we believe in something that has no existence and live by that superstition for a lifetime.
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
– Bernard Beckett
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition’s arms.
– Susan Neiman
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
– George Iles
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
– Doris Lessing
My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.
– Donald E. Westlake
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
– Denis Diderot
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
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
– Joseph Joubert
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
– Henry Thoreau
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
– Francis Bacon
Superstitions are the by-products of ignorance.
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.
– Robert Ingersoll
Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13.
Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
Superstition is another word for Everyday life.
– Lionel Suggs
Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.
– Dion Fortune
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
– Tryon Edwards
When it’s your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
– Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory.
– Charlotte Bronte
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
– George Santayana
The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.
– Kedar Joshi
Superstition is the poetry of life.
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.
– W. R. Alger
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
– Robert Ingersoll
All men are superstitious; they only differ in degrees.
– John Toland