Quote by Judith Viorst, Love, Guilt & the

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

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational

Summary

This quote is a playful way of highlighting the contradiction between reason and superstition. It suggests that while superstition may seem irrational, people often engage in superstitious behaviors because the potential cost of not doing so is perceived to be too high. Knocking on wood is a superstitious act meant to prevent bad luck, and the quote humorously exposes how individuals may embrace these irrational beliefs to protect themselves from negative outcomes, even if they recognize the foolishness behind them.

Topics

Superstition

By Judith Viorst, Love, Guilt & the

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Louis D. Brandeis

Politics

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

Charlie Kaufman

Funny

There can be no assumption that today's majority is right an

There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish and others like them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Warren Earl Burger

Differences

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak exce

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity

Religion Courage Morality Honor Ethics C S Lewis Tao

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

Courage

Sports should always be fun.

Sports should always be fun.

Sports

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason eith

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Archibald MacLeish

Poetry

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right,

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadworth

Father

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

Famous

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I jus

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

Men Age

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

History

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that t

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Johann von Goethe

Purpose