Tradition Quotes

1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors

Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess… — Tertullian
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine… — Origen
Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish,… — Talcott Parsons
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill. — Peter Drucker
Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our… — George W. Bush
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence… — Unknown Author
The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans… — Unknown Author
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. — Maya Lin
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. — Mark Twain
This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have… — Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat)… — Calvin Trillin
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. — Arthur Hugh Clough
I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers… — John Templeton
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of… — John Templeton
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real… — Ruth Hubbard
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. — Stephen Bayley
As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration. — Laura Nyro
America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor. — Helen Boosalis
Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads. — Guy Cook
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their… — Charles A. Reich
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the… — William Buckland
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.… — Dennis McKinsey

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