Tradition - Quotes

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. - Winston Churchill

All tradition is merely the past. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition. - Jonah Goldberg

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Every tradition grows ever more venerable – the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Just because something is tradition doesn’t make it right. - Anthony D'Angelo

People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity. - Hugo Demartini

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

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

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