333 Quotes About Superstition

There are things in life that science will never be able to see.

A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.

Men ville mand imidlertid spørge dem saa,Hvor lyckes i Fisket? Hvad kan i vel faa, De svarer dig hogtet i bogte;Part svarer: det er saare lidet vi faar,Part svarer: Vi foer om alt Havet i Gaar, Sled neppe saa mange vi kaagte.

credulity and superstition are close friends

There's a superstition among falconers that a hawk's ability is inversely proportional to the ferocity of its name. Call a hawk Tiddles and it will be a formidable hunter; call it Spitfire or Slayer and it will probably refuse to fly at all.

If you roll the dice often enough you always get the numbers you want. If I tell you the sun will shine tomorrow and that it will rain and there will be snow and that clouds will cover the sky and that wind will blow and that it will be a calm day and that thunder will deafen us, then one of those things will turn out to be true and you'll forget the rest because you want to believe that I really can tell the future.

Don't wear green in your dressing room,' suggested Miss Spink.'Or mention the Scottish play," added Miss Forcible.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

It's a shadelight," Grimm said quietly. "Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest.""A bit heathen of them, I suppose," Benedict said."It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.