Superstitions Quotes - Page 23

• Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dry, Belief, Ministers

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• If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Thinking, If There Is A God, Red

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• I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

  Michael Ramsey

  Giving Up, Thinking, Fasting

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• What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

  Walker Percy

  Clothes, Looks, Belief

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.

  David Niven

  Taken, Fields, Spirit

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• We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Belief, Sin, Unfair

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

  Dar Williams

  Song, Writing, People

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• I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

  Jason Akermanis

  Thinking, Woods, Caught

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• That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.

  Ernest Gowers

  Giving, Example, Sentences

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• Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

  Seneca the Younger

  Worship, Worship God, Profane

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

  Curt Siodmak

  People, Contagious

  "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

  James Randi

  Long, Wish, Medieval

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• One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.

  James D. Watson

  Father, Sacrifice, Fate

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• The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.284, Harvard University Press

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

  George Santayana

  Exercise, Thinking, People

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

  Baruch Spinoza

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Preface, 1670.

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• I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

  Mario Andretti

  Dumb, Green, Pens

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Good Life, Men

  Source: www.heavenonearthdocumentary.com

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• It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in superstition. If we could understand that the human body is a network of information and energy, then we would see that the same principles apply everywhere in the body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Energy, Principles, Body

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me.

  Philip Pullman

  Mind, Stories, Helping

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

  Mario Bunge

  Political, Historical, Tools

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall be free all eternity; ... that I know that I am worshiping only myself; that no nature, no delusion, had any hold on me. Vanish nature from me, vanish these gods; vanish worship; ... vanish superstitions, for I know myself. I am the Infinite. All these - Mrs. So-and-so, Mr. So-and-so, responsibility, happiness, misery - have vanished. I am the Infinite. How can there be death for me, or birth? Whom shall I fear? I am the One. Shall I be afraid of myself? Who is to be afraid of whom?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Dream, Blessed

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• Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Long

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• Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.

  Maimonides

  Science, Astrology, Tree

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