Tradition Quotes

Most popular tradition quotes

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. - W. Somerset Maugham quote.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

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Tradition is the dead hand of human progress. - Kelly Miller quote.
Tradition is the dead hand of human progress.
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. - John F. Kennedy quote.
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. - Wystan Auden quote.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
When you live in a place you've always lived in, where your family has always lived, you get to see things not only in space but in time.
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive.
No progress in humanity is possible unless it shakes off the yoke of authority and tradition. - André Gide quote.
No progress in humanity is possible unless it shakes off the yoke of authority and tradition.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes—our ancestors.  It is the democracy of the dead. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes—our ancestors.  It is the democracy of the dead.
A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. - T. S. Eliot quote.
A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds.  The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
Traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy. - Edith Wharton quote.
Traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.