I don’t believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. - Noel Coward
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener. - Francis Bacon
Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat. - Sri Chinmoy
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an “intellectual” – find out how he feels about astrology. - Robert A. Heinlein
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. -Edward Abbey
I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence. - Mahatma Gandhi
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. - Rebecca West
Dreams, and predictions of astrology…. ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. - Francis Bacon
The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about. - Isaac Asimov
A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. - Jeremy Taylor
At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don’t worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. - Carl Jung
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. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Astrology is one of the earliest attempts made by man to find the order hidden behind or within the confusing and apparent chaos that exists in the world. - Karen Hamaker-Zondag
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. - Carl Gustav Jung
Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you. - Dane Rudhyar
Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality. - Steven Forrest
Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. - Benjamin Stillingfleet
Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics. - Paul Carvel
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish – if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Astrology can clear up or mix up a person as much as any other psychological, philosophical or religious mirror, a looking glass in the endless mirror hall of life. - Markku Siivola
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. - Edward Abbey
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. - Ambrose Bierce
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? -Mason Cooley
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle. - Johannes Kepler
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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