Quotes about Tradition

Meaningful Quotes about Tradition

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
T. S. Eliot

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
Russell (Wayne) Baker

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

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
Robert M. Hutchins

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
T. S. Eliot

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

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
Stephen Bayley

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a ''mummified'' form.
Alfred Jarry

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. Somerset Maugham

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
Dorothy Day

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

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.
Ellen Goodman

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