Superstitious Quotes

• Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Doubt, Needs

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Roots, Missing

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• The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, People, History

  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch. 2 (1776 - 1788)

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• No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  God, Men, Judging

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.366, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

  Steve Carell

  Office, Running For Office, Littles

  "The Office: Fun Run". TV series, 2007.

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• Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

  George Santayana

  Men, Imagination, Superstitions

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.54, Рипол Классик

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• The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.

  H. L. Mencken

  Light, Forever, Criticism

  "Aftermath". Baltimore Evening Sun, September 14, 1925.

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• They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

  John Selden

  Running, Wearing Black, Color

  "Table Talk, Being the Discourses of John Selden".

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• I'm not superstitious.

  Bai Ling

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• It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

  Henry James

  Responsibility, Fighting, Fate

  Henry James (2013). “Daisy Miller and An International Episode”, p.22, OUP Oxford

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• I am a very superstitious person.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Persons

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• My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

  Meryl Streep

  Believe, Voice, Feelings

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• I'm superstitious ... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

  Kate Hudson

  Two, Underwear, Week

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• The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

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• A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Great Day, Useless, Examination

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.152, tredition

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• For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

  Josh McDowell

  World, Philosopher, Good Christian

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• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Mind, Religion

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

  Bernard Beckett

  Optimism, Curiosity, Superstitions

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2006.

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• Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Needs, Calamity

  Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.141, Aegitas

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• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Tattoo, Tribes, Records

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

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• The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

  H. L. Mencken

  Forever, Superstitions, Way

  "Aftermath". "The Baltimore Sun" Newspaper, September 14, 1925.

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• Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

  Mark Hopkins

  Superstitions, Ethics, Morality

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• A man should be religious, not superstitious.

  Aulus Gellius

  Religious, Men, Should

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• Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Superstitions, Accomplished, Mines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

  Joseph Joubert

  Soul, Religion, Superstitions

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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