Facts Quote by James Mark Baldwin

Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking

— Grace McGarvie

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

— Anonymous

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Glenn Gould

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

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

— Jaroslav Pelikan

“When tradition thus becomes master, it does so in such a way that what it transmits is made so inaccessible, proximally and for the…

— Martin Heidegger

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

— Albert Schweitzer

“Even if another tradition goes against our own convictions, it has its own reason for being, in the support it provides for others.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Tradition of heartless facts is no better than the tradition of mindless assumptions.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The oral and folk traditions were often ignored, or even denounced as superstitious, because they did not fit the Western norms.10”

— Rajiv Malhotra