Culture Quote by Hugo Demartini

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a…

— Albert Einstein

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

— Oliver D. Crisp

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

— Jaroslav Pelikan

The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though sheer passage…

— Richard Dawkins

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

— Henry James

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

— Joseph Addison

Tradition is laziness.

— Gustav Mahler

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

— Woody Allen

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

— James Russell Lowell

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

— Klaus Schulze