Superstition

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

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 behavior takes. – Freda Adler

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 an unreasoning fear of God. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. – Marlene Dietrich

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. – James A. Froude

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

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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

The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
Its power over us–Not all are free
Who make mock of their chains. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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 hadnt the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. – Henry Miller

Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush. – Platen