Quotes About Tradition

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.

The truth is I'm a bit old school. For me, it would be hard to put on a Lakers jersey. That's just the way it is.

I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true.

Remember this:  genre is the marriage of convention with invention.

The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.

They can't," said Jonathan. "The Dame is always played by a man." "And the Principal Boy is always a girl," agreed Judy. "It's traditional." "I don't see why," insisted Paddington.

That was the purpose of habit, in my grandfather's view: to render memory unnecessary.

It's the kind of house you'd like to wake up in on Christmas morning.

At any rate, as Uncle Ray once explained to him, if you examined the language, the concluding lines of the kaddish might have been interpreted as a wish that God and everyone else would just, for once, leave the speaker and all his fellow Jews alone.

The Filipino-style Chinese donut, or shtekeleh, is the great contribution of the District of Sitka to the food lovers of the world. In its present form, it cannot be found in the Philippines. No Chinese trenchermen would recognize it as the fruit of his native fry kettles. Like the storm god Yahweh of Sumeria, the shtekeleh was not invented by the Jews, but the world would sport neither the God not the shtekeleh without Jews and their desires.

Badass.' My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to sample again.

She's interested in Japanese history right now, so that's what I'm reading to her. And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

professional mourners

sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new