Tradition Quotes

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril

Winston Churchill

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

Henry James

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Joseph Addison

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Woody Allen

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Barzun

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking

Grace McGarvie

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

All tradition is merely the past.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Woody Allen

I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."

John David Ashcroft

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

Kate Chopin

Can you imagine your second album the difficult second album it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, "It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.

Paul David Hewson
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