Checks Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“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 is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man…

— Talal Asad

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

— Jaroslav Pelikan

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

— James Mark Baldwin

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but…

— Jonathan Swift

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely…

— Edward Feser

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

— Joseph Addison

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

— James Agee

“Tradition is not good simply because it is tradition. It is for what it has given us and only so long as an alternative…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.

— Nachman of Breslov

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

— Glenn Gould

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

— Anonymous