Tradition Quotes · Page 24

Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich…

— William L. Shirer

I tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that…

— Cornel West

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

— Todd Haynes

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

— Richard Rorty

The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn't lose it's experience,…

— Edgar Mitchell

Common endeavour, solidarity and respect are the hallmarks of the Labour tradition.

— Wes Streeting

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three…

— Amin Maalouf

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even…

— Ellen Goodman

Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.

— Mark O'Connor

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

— John Hodgman

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child,…

— Khaled Hosseini

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

— Philip Pullman

Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country…

— Roger Sherman

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

— Maureen Johnson

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

— Cosima Spender

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

— Eoin Colfer

Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

— Jonathan Ive

“Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost,…

— René Guénon

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

— Daniela Ruah

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of…

— Albert Ellis

The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous.…

— Mike Weir