Tradition Quotes · Page 7

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

— Hassan Fathy

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

— Josephine de La Baume

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

— Brian Eno

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

— Horton Foote

I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!

— Arthur Potts Dawson

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

— Russell Baker

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of…

— Sharad Pawar

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

— Laura Nyro

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

— John F. Kennedy

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that…

— Gloria Steinem

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

— Jean Jaures

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

— Brennan Manning

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights…

— Anonymous

But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the…

— William Shakespeare

The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing…

— William O. Douglas

I understand that flamenco has very specific rules and codes, and there's the weight of tradition, so I can understand when people…

— Rosalia

I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it…

— Michael Connelly

“[...] Tradition is not a childish and outmoded mythology but a science that is terribly real. (...la tradition n'est pas une mythologie…

— Frithjof Schuon

“I encourage you to cultivate your curiosity and discover how your cultural lens on the world can influence your interactions with people…

— Gaiti Rabbani

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits…

— Mark Strand

Whatever you are making, whether it's a song, an album, a painting, a film, you're connecting with a tradition, and I do…

— Rostam Batmanglij

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen…

— Aldous Huxley

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is…

— Bertrand Russell

By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think…

— Edward Snowden

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science,…

— Edward Abbey

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We…

— Dorothy Day

It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from…

— King Hussein I

A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack…

— Michael Eric Dyson

If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one…

— Albert Einstein

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

— Vanessa Mae

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

— Mark Twain

India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.

— Amish Tripathi

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

— Jose Bergamin

“The living tradition we share draws from many sources …”

— John Buehrens

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

— Kate Mara

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

— Robert Ardrey

I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.

— Fela Kuti