Tradition Quotes

1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves. — Unknown Author
The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as… — Ted Nelson
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices — Bill Bradley
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy,… — James Hillman
We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not… — Thomas L. Thompson
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into… — Willa Cather
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to… — Nancy Banks-Smith
Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always… — Dalai Lama
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced… — Christopher Dawson
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not… — Christopher Dawson
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel… — Michael Ignatieff
The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in… — Roger Clemens
Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that… — Wolfgang Pauli
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only… — Erwin Schrodinger
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two… — Werner Heisenberg
Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government… — Edwin Feulner
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs — Mikhail Gorbachev
The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which… — Che Guevara
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. — Vanessa Mae
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident… — Peter Medawar
I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if… — Rudolfo Anaya
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their… — Che Guevara
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou
Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own traditions, but call… — Thomas Berry

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