Pliny the Elder Quotes

I believe in numbers and signs.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

Good luck lies in odd numbers.

There's luck in odd numbers.

I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

... force is the natural ally of superstition, and superstition knows it well.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Odd numbers are masculine while the even numbers are feminine.

My mother believed in curses, karma, good luck, bad luck, feng shui. Her amorphous set of beliefs showed me you can pick and choose the qualities of your philosophy, based on what works for you.

The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just love how divisible it is. I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes. When I turned 37, I put on a strong face, but I was not looking forward to 37. But 37 turned out to be a pretty amazing year.

I'm not an intensely mystical person. I don't do numerology. I'm a Cancer, but that's as far as I go.

Chinese people have that superstitious fix - people always do feng shui when they are opening a shop; even the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank pays people to do feng shui for them.

Contrary to what everyone thinks, I'm not superstitious - I'm spiritual. And there is a huge difference between the two.

I've always had a thing about sevens.

I don't really believe in the supernatural, as far as the negativity.