Tradition Quotes

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

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

Each country is strong on some tradition.

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.

Don’t be controlled by the tradition of men

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city great, sir." "Does he _know_ what those values and traditions _were_?" said Vimes, aghast.

I do not follow any tradition. I may stand at the beginning of one.

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

It’s a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.

Like Christmas trees and Easter egg hunts and the block party on the last day of summer, we do things because traditions feel cozy and safe.

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths

If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity

Life at the edge of the world, it was felt, could go on forever.

Don’t try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can’t is that nobody could. It’s no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen!

If you can't set a better example for progress, don't show disapproval against the worse tradition!

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

The past informs the present.

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.

you're deluding yourself that you have some deep spiritual connection, like you didn't just read it on Wikipedia. There's a difference between tradition and culture.

Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.