Tradition Quotes

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

Half of tradition is a lie.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.

Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church.

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.

The dead govern the living.

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

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

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink, really. It's culture in a glass.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.