Superstitious Quotes - Page 3

• Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Science, Liberty, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It's nine months before the election and Bush's poll numbers have fallen to the exact level that his father's poll numbers were nine months before he lost to Bill Clinton. Today front runner John Kerry said he's not superstitious, but just to be on the safe side, he's going to start f---ing everything that moves.

  Bill Maher

  Father, Moving, Numbers

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• The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

  Henry Fielding

  Coffee, House, Way

  Henry Fielding (1824). “Works: With a Life of the Author”, p.297

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• But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

  Aleister Crowley

  America, Oasis, Europe

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• If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Dream, Taken, Simple

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.12, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

  Samuel Richardson

  Strong, Mind, Enough

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Instinct, Reverence, Unworthy

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.86, e-artnow

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• Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Inspire, Mind, Superstitions

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• Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Practice, Causes, Reason

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.150, Univ of California Press

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• Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

  Blaise Pascal

  Different, Superstitions, Submission

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• Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.

  George Gilder

  Motivation, Community, Identity

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Imagination, Perfection, Support

  Joseph Addison (1975). “Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory”, Harlan Davidson

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• miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

  Rose Macaulay

  Missing, Feelings, May

  Rose Macaulay, Constance Babington Smith (2011). “Letters to a Friend”, p.280, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Skaters are infamously superstitious.

  Ashley Wagner

  Skater

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• Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Christian, Animal, Men

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• Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

  Mary McCarthy

  Blue, Europe, Looks

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, that's the way it is. My ritual is I never use a typewriter or computer. I just write it all by hand. It's a ceremony. I go to a stationary store and buy a notebook and then fill it up.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Notebook, Writing, Hands

  Source: allwomenstalk.com

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• I'm superstitious. I keep mum while I'm working on something.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mum

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one?

  Tony Lewis

  Listening, Firsts, Pads

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• Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Superstitions, Poet, Practicals

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.111

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• My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

  Rosalind Russell

  Mother, Forgiving, Tautology

  Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”

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• I'm supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that somebody is looking after me.

  Daniel Inouye

  War, Normal, Type

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Worry, Irrational Fear

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• 'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

  Isaac Newton

  Hot, Matter, Mystery

  Sir Isaac Newton (1785). “Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia”, p.530

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• I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Demand, Facts, Pivotal Moments

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.27, Hachette UK

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