Superstition quotes

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◆ If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

- Groucho Marx100

◆ If you have 13 letters in your name you will have the devils luck. Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names.

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◆ Superstition is the weakness of the human mind; it is inherent in that mind; it has always been, and always will be

- Frederick The Great99

◆ Superstition is the religion of feeble minds

- Edmund Burke99

◆ There is superstition in avoiding superstitions

- Francis Bacon Sr99

◆ I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

- Dr Carl Sagan99

◆ Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

- Ulysses S Grant99

◆ It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality

- Emma Goldman99

◆ Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain

- John Calvin99

◆ The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton99

◆ If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

- Starhawk99

◆ There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother

- Voltaire99

◆ The greatest American superstition is a belief in facts

- Hermann Keyserling99

◆ Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom

- Bertrand Russell99