Tradition Quotes

Scripture offers the unique access to the story of redemption and then, in turn, funds tradition, reason and experience, as God's Word is remembered, experienced, and thought about.

If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

Sufism is experiential

The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.

Tradition is a foolish man's excuse for not thinking

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.”Patricia Briggs.

We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.

Men will always create new arenas for honor if traditional rituals fade.

Never become a slave to tradition, learn to foresee new things.

It’s an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid, ” said Locke. “Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You’ll find out

The believer is not a slave to fa

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy.

This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is responsible for the people’s hardships, it is the people themselves. Pg.8

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.

Custom is second nature and no less powerful.

He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

Custom that unwritten law By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.

When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

The great tradition of Delhi can be seen through its cuisine.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating back to the days of President Theodore Roosevelt.

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.