Superstition Quotes

I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition, or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 4. Victor Frankenstein.

I’m very anti-religion. I think it’s all just medieval superstition. Religion relies on some desire for a spiritual connection and I do get that from just being out in Yosemite. I get that feeling of grandeur and awe in the world sitting on a cliff at sunset, watching the mountains glow pink, that a lot of people get through religious faith.

– Alex Honnold

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

– Joseph Joubert

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

– Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

– Francis Bacon

Superstition is the poetry of life.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

– Joseph Lewis

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

– Theophrastus

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