Quotes About Tradition

Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation's level of knowledge and sense of values.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they're so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.