Tradition Quotes

1555 Tradition quotes by 1164 unique authors

You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave… — Ziauddin Yousafzai
It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source.… — King Hussein I
Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this… — Bernie Siegel
The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions. — Deepak Chopra
My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many… — Gerd R. Puin
...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. — Mohammed Arkoun
Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so completely guided by,… — Corinne Heline
My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being… — Karl Popper
It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large… — Unknown Author
We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt and that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past.… — Henry Steele Commager
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws,… — Unknown Author
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon… — William Ralph Inge
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates… — Michael Leunig
Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come. — Jeff Goldblum
Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique.… — Masaharu Morimoto
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new… — Peggy Noonan
We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly. — Albert Einstein
I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism… — Richard Dawkins
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in… — Thomas Berry
There is no greater cause than making the world fit for children. I feel very strongly about carrying on the family tradition by working with… — Tea Leoni
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is… — Beaumont Newhall
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous,… — Saint Augustine

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