Culture Quote by Stephen Crane

All tradition is merely the past.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Oliver D. Crisp

“Traditions are seldom lies; traditions reflect people’s deepest beliefs and customs. They have their own truth,”

— Anne Rice

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

— Jaroslav Pelikan

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

— Glenn Gould

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

— Klaus Schulze

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

— Jefferson Davis

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

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

— Hosea Ballou

Tradition is laziness.

— Gustav Mahler

All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.

— Doug Stanhope

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

— Henry James