Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Tradition

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Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

Henry David Thoreau

Memories, Tradition, Interrupted

Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.309

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

Henry David Thoreau

Ruts, Conformity, Tradition

Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

Henry David Thoreau

Change, Doubt, Tradition

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.103, Xist Publishing

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Obstacles, Tradition

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

Henry David Thoreau

Appreciate, Greek, Tradition

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.254, Delphi Classics