Top 75 Superstition Quotes

I have only one superstition… Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

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

Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition’s night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

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

I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn’t bring my chairs with me.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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

Something I’m going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been raised a Catholic, superstition becomes almost part of your DNA. The challenge is to slowly rid yourself of these little delusions.

My only feeling about superstition is that it’s unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

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.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That is why I have a lot of curiosity about the unseen force and invisible things.

I have routines but not superstitions.

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

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

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

I have too many psycho superstitions.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

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

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.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

You’ll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

You’ll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

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

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

My spirituality and my beliefs are way beyond any superstition – I’m not a conformist – and I do have a scientific outlook towards religion. Our body is made up of different elements, and certain stones help align these elements.

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

It’s not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I’m a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.

New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture – even the local superstitions. It’s a sensory experience on all levels and there’s a story lurking around every corner.

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.

I am finicky about making sure my sneakers are pretty tight. It is almost like a superstition for me.

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

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

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

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you’ve been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things… Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

I do believe a haircut makes you play better – I’ve experienced that before. I think it’s confidence, it’s routine, and it can also be superstition. Just like if you do your hair, it’s not quite done right, and you have a bad day, you’re not going to do that again the next day.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

I have to put my outfit on in the same order. It’s sort of a superstition. The last thing I put on is the glasses.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

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.

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

I do not follow superstitions on court.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I just never told anyone. I had this superstition that if I said it out loud, it wouldn’t come true.

I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren’t held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.

When I perform, I wear white Capezio dance shoes. It’s more of a superstition, but I only wear them when I perform and when I dance.

Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.