Superstition Quotes

"I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run."
-Babe Ruth

"Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters."
-Titus Livy

"We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition."
-Cicero

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

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."
-Voltaire

"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural."
-Theophrastus

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
-Helen Keller

"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."
-Robert H. Bork

"The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about."
-George Santayana

"The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God."
-Luther Burbank

"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy."
-William Ralph Inge

"People are realizing the ways things are going with growth in Arizona aren't always all that desirable. Superstition Vistas could change it for many areas. If the State Land Department gets the reform it needs to make more highly planned development happen, it could happen statewide."
-Rob Melnick

"The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism."
-Francis Arinze

"Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts."
-John Gunther

"And many of them have fallen for the 'high-tech superstition' without realizing its superstitious nature at all."
-Xu Xiuyu

"No, my superstition might be not having any. Come playoff time, you like to get into routines, but that's all. You get into superstitious things and it makes you think about other things."
-Adam Dennis

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

"I had been eating the same thing, doing the same thing for four days trying to keep it going. I've just been trying to keep the superstition going. Now that we won and it's all over, we can breathe for a little bit."
-Hannah Kirk

"Your routine is something you feel comfortable doing. If you don't do it and it bothers you mentally, it's superstition."
-Lorne Misita

"Poetry is the mother of superstition."
-Thomas Sprat

"'Management' means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . ."
-Peter F. Drucker

"It's not superstition. I keep getting hit, so I've kept wearing it. The trainer told me it could still break again if I got hit. The eye holes are big and I can see fine, so why not leave it on?"
-Krista Rappahahn

"Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible."
-Mark Hopkins

"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."
-John Selden

"The traditional superstition has put on the cloak of modern high technology, poisoning an increasing number of Chinese kids and youth."
-Xu Xiuyu

"Superstition Vistas sits out there vacant, not because there aren't buyers for it, but because we can't plan it. We don't have the money. Our inability to plan the land has caused development to leap over it. That's not supposed to happen."
-Mark Winkleman

"The value in superstition is that for athletes it gives an incredible confidence, because you really believe this thing works."
-Bill Cole