Tradition Quotes

1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule.… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations. — Richard Lamm
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives.… — Parker J. Palmer
There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it. — Jim Harbaugh
(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality. — Elie Wiesel
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the… — Learned Hand
By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition… — B.F. Skinner
God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. — Allan Bloom
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition. — Gloria Steinem
I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call "indoorsy"... My wife always brings up, "Camping's a tradition in… — Jim Gaffigan
Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active… — Carl Nielsen
The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's… — Steven Moffat
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do… — A J Liebling
Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth. — Giuseppe Mazzini
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:… — Albert Einstein
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime. — James Russell Lowell
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of… — George Santayana

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