Tradition Quotes
1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors
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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
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
— Lewis Mumford
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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
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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
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Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
— Joseph Addison
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
— Harold MacMillan
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There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.
— Debby Boone
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
— Albert Einstein
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Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.
— Ronald Reagan
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
— Russell Baker
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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
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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
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Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.
— Paula Gunn Allen
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Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.
— Jonah Goldberg
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
— Allan Bloom
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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
— Walter Lippmann
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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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
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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
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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
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
— Salvador Dali
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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
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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
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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
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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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