Tradition Quotes - Page 18

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

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.

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.

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

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

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.