382 Quotes About Tradition

Sometimes we get so enamored with the tradition of something that we forget about the intent of it.

Tradition converts oddity into ordinary.

...training your answers (winning the losses), as if you had never lost, that is 'something' rewarding.

Jeg svarer dig af min Eenfoldighed vel, At Satan paa Folk ved at giøre Forskiel,Og efter Personer sig føye; ...den Gierning er hannem ey tung eller suur,At hielpe et Menniskes Legem ved Cuur,Hvis siæl hand i Længden vil vinne.

The order never varies. Two slices of bread-and-butter each, and China tea. What a hide-bound couple we must seem, clinging to custom because we did so in England. Here, on this clean balcony, white and impersonal with centuries of sun, I think of half-past-four at Manderley, and the table drawn before the library fire. The door flung open, punctual to the minute, and the performance, never-varying, of the laying of the tea, the silver tray, the kettle, the snowy cloth.

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language

We are missing an enormous opportunity if we deny ourselves a wholesome, mature reliance on those who have evolved to what we aspire to become. As Sir Isaac Newton urged, we can evolve best by standing on the shoulders of giants, getting closer to truth by building on the discoveries of those luminaries who came before us.