382 Quotes About Tradition

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are things that I do respect. They have to earn that respect. They have to earn it by serving people. They don't earn it just by age or legality or tradition.

Only a man of Colonel Sartoris’ generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.

Kaladin stared outward at the blue sky. 'I have to know,' he whispered. 'Know?''You asked why I protect Dalinar. I have to know if he really is what he seems, Syl. I have to know if one of them lives up to his reputation. That will tell me-''Tell you? Tell you what?''If honor is dead,' Kaladin whispered. 'He is,' Syl said. 'But he lives on in men. And in me.

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

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

Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47)

Very few politicians, who have chosen a political career, can fulfill the aspirations and survive the strains of an elevated office that in a monarchy was filled so randomly. Each tsar had to be simultaneously dictator and supreme general, high priest and Little Father. They required all the qualities listed by the sociologist Max Weber: the personal gift of grace, the virtue of legality, and "the authority of the eternal yesterday.

If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.