Definition of Superstition

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Superstition

An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.

An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion.

The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects.

Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.

Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.

Related Definitions:

Agency, Also, An, And, Belief, Certain, Commanded, Deity, Direct, Exactness, Excess, Excessive, Extraordinary, Extreme, False, Fear, For, From, God, Ignorant, Importance, In, Irrational, Is, Like, Magic, Minor, Mysterious, Nicety, Not, Observance, Of, Or, Practice, Proceeding, Religion, Religious, Reverence, Rigor, Rite, Scrupulous, Singular, Superior, Supreme, That, The, Unknown, Veneration, Which, Worship

Superstition Quotations

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
Thomas Jefferson

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II

Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

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

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Superstition Translations

superstition in Danish is overtro
superstition in Dutch is bijgeloof
superstition in French is superstition
superstition in German is Aberglaube {m}
superstition in Hungarian is babona
superstition in Swedish is vidskepelse, vantro, skrock

Quotes