Ancient Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what…

— Anonymous

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

— William Penn

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

— Cate Blanchett

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

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

— Lord Chesterfield

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

— Elizabeth Berg

I respect traditions, you can't walk all over them, but at the same time our world is changing. Life is about moving on.

— Motsi Mabuse

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what…

— Rowan Williams

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

— Edith Wharton

Just because certain cultures have had long-standing traditions does not mean that in today's world they are acceptable any longer. The world and the…

— Hayden Panettiere

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

— Alexander Crummell