Explore Quotes on Tradition

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

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

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

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

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

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

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love.

For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.