Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.

William Shakespeare

There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

Aristotle

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

Albert Einstein

Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it.

Albert Einstein

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

Alice Morse Earle

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.

Kurt Vonnegut

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Dante Alighieri

Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

Max Heindel

To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.

Gena Rowlands

I think everybody has tried the Ouija board, ... I used to be into astrology and such, but then I got more fatalistic about things. I'd rather be surprised.

D. H. Lawrence

Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

D. H. Lawrence

The #‎ cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.

Anne Sexton

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.

Juvenal

Astrology reveals the will of the gods.

Dick Cavett

There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.

Charley Pride

Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.

Carl Jung

Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.

Carl Jung

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

Carl Jung

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....

Martin Luther

Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

Robert A. Heinlein

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Thomas Szasz

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.

Raymond Smullyan

Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.

Swami Vivekananda

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind

Quentin Crisp

You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

William H. Gass

The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.

Jerry Falwell

A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.

Emm Gryner

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

Hippocrates

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Hippocrates

He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

Gus Van Sant

I have this new theory about films. It’s almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if we started on a Wednesday. Not because of the planets. It’s that sometimes you start with the wrong balance and the whole thing gets messed up.

J. P. Morgan

Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.