I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth
Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters.
Titus Livy
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
George Iles
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Theophrastus
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
Robert H. Bork
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
George Santayana
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God.
Luther Burbank
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.
William Ralph Inge
People are realizing the ways things are going with growth in Arizona aren't always all that desirable. Superstition Vistas could change it for many areas. If the State Land Department gets the reform it needs to make more highly planned development happen, it could happen statewide.
Rob Melnick
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.
Francis Arinze
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
John Gunther
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
George Herbert
No, my superstition might be not having any. Come playoff time, you like to get into routines, but that's all. You get into superstitious things and it makes you think about other things.
Adam Dennis
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
Benjamin Whichcote
'Management' means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .
Peter F. Drucker
I had been eating the same thing, doing the same thing for four days trying to keep it going. I've just been trying to keep the superstition going. Now that we won and it's all over, we can breathe for a little bit.
Hannah Kirk
Your routine is something you feel comfortable doing. If you don't do it and it bothers you mentally, it's superstition.
Lorne Misita
Poetry is the mother of superstition.
Thomas Sprat
It's not superstition. I keep getting hit, so I've kept wearing it. The trainer told me it could still break again if I got hit. The eye holes are big and I can see fine, so why not leave it on?
Krista Rappahahn
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Mark Hopkins
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. Hodge
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
Superstition Vistas sits out there vacant, not because there aren't buyers for it, but because we can't plan it. We don't have the money. Our inability to plan the land has caused development to leap over it. That's not supposed to happen.
Mark Winkleman
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Anne Tyler
The greatest American superstition is a belief in facts.
Hermann Keyserling
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
James A. Froude
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress).
William Ralph Inge
If we move again, we start to put some of that at risk. By taking a look now at what our needs will be in the future, maybe we can come up with a plan to stay here for a long time. And that would be a win-win-win situation for us, for Superstition Mountain and for the East Valley.
Tom Maletis
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
James Fenimore Cooper
People survive an accident and say, 'God spared us.' Well, what about the other 136 people who died miserably and in flames? It's a selective use of data and is not only not scientific, it's really anti-scientific. It's superstition.
Joe Nickell
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
We have folklore and superstition and magic. The first book I ever wrote was on magic incantations written by Jewish magi.
Charles Isbell
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
Duffy Daugherty
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.
Immanuel Kant
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