John Selden Quotes

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

I am a very superstitious person.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

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

I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our house. And I always salute when I see one magpie.

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

Superstition cannot be the part of faith

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

The left hand of the right wing.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

What superstition and fanaticism on every side!

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth".

What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.