Quotes about superstition

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.

— Countess of Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

— Edmund Burke

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

— Marcus T. Cicero

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

— Denis Diderot

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

— Marlene Dietrich

Superstition is the poetry of life.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Joseph Joubert

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

— Doris Lessing

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

— Andrew W. Mathis

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

— Platen

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

— American Proverb

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

— George Santayana

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

— John Selden

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

— Mark Twain

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.

— Voltaire

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

— Voltaire

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

— Oscar Wilde