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Tag Name "Superstition" (260)

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I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.
Richelle Mead
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In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Tucker Carlson
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Anne Tyler
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Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having the courage to say certain things in people's faces and started to put these feelings on paper... Over the years, became a mania and then I never talk about for whom they are made.
Enrique Iglesias
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There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
Anne Nicol Gaylor
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The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Carl Sagan
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I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.
Penelope Cruz
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I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
Shirley Hazzard
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As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.
Andy Kaufman
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Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.
Lenny Bruce
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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
Voltaire
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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
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire
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[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.
Voltairine de Cleyre
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Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.
Ferdinand Mount
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Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
Ambrose Bierce
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
Alexander Pope
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The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.
William Gilmore Simms
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
Aldous Huxley
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Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
Charles Lindbergh
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I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.
Albert Einstein
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Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
Albert Einstein
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