Tradition Quotes

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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of. — Ellen Goodman
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in… — Dorothy Day
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. — Joseph Addison
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. — Harold MacMillan
There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children. — Debby Boone
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. — Albert Einstein
Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions. — Ronald Reagan
In America nothing dies easier than tradition. — Russell Baker
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore. — Margaret Drabble
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. — James A. Michener
Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves. — Paula Gunn Allen
Cultures grow on the vine of tradition. — Jonah Goldberg
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. — Allan Bloom
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. — Walter Lippmann
A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave… — Woody Allen
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as… — Russell Simmons
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in… — Murray Rothbard
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. — Salvador Dali
The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes… — Karl Popper
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity… — John Milton
A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to… — Ronald Reagan
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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