Top 100 Quotes About Traditions

#1. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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#2. In Kinvara, poor as we were, and unstable, we at least had family nearby, people who knew us. We shared traditions and a way of looking at the world. We didn't know until we left how much we took those things for granted.

Christina Baker Kline

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#3. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

Vladimir Putin

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#4. If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!

Marcel Duchamp

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#5. Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

Franklin Foer

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#6. gastronomic flavours and traditions on display to tease and seduce the senses.

Atsons

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#7. Religious traditions and selfish agenda are laid aside when we are poor in spirit

Sunday Adelaja

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#8. I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.

Brandon Bays

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#9. Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

Graham Joyce

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#10. What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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#11. The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

Helena Blavatsky

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#12. I suppose, all traditions sound silly when explained or discussed.
I nodded at this truth. It was a good thought, worth remembering, worthy of further contemplation. I tucked it away as a data point to be mulled over later.

Penny Reid

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#13. The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

Frithjof Schuon

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#14. Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition, the imperial tradition and the federalist tradition, the authoritarian tradition and the libertarian tradition.

Pyotr Kropotkin

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#15. I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe and is what - what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.

Barack Obama

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#16. Thing is, every place has its limitations and its benefits. And some children don't or can't follow the path of their siblings or the generations that came before them. Some traditions die, and that's okay. In the end, the only thing that counts is our relationship with God.

Beth Webb Hart

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#17. Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

Allen West

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#18. Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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#19. Traditions are not killed by facts.

George Orwell

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#20. Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Rick Santorum

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#21. Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.

Frederick Lenz

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#22. Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

John Catsimatidis

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#23. It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

Jim Butcher

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#24. Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

Stephen Jay Gould

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#25. Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Bram Stoker

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#26. Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.

Bryant McGill

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#27. People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

Charlemagne Palestine

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#28. It is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

Mohammed Arkoun

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#29. If you left off traditions because you didn't know why they started you'd be no better than a foreigner.

Terry Pratchett

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#30. The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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#31. Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

James D. Watson

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#32. Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

Thomas Keating

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#33. Any system of periodization is thus inevitably social, since our ability to envision the historical watersheds separating one conventional "period" from another is basically a product of being socialized into specific traditions of carving the past.

Eviatar Zerubavel

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#34. The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down ... The traditions which have been handed down should be regarded as apostolic laws.

St. Jerome

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#35. It has often been noted that the biblical stories recounted in the Quran, especially those dealing with Jesus, imply a familiarity with the traditions and narratives of the Christian faith.

Reza Aslan

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#36. We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

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#37. The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man's truly human development.

Erich Fromm

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#38. I had believed myself superior to my ancestors. But all it took was the proper amount of pain for me to return to the traditions of old. For even thinking such a thing, I am sorry. I apologize to you as a Wakandian, as a human being, and I apologize to my nation.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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#39. ... the modern era should not see an end to cultural diversity, but modern people should engage with their traditions in a transformed way: they should be recognized as 'traditions,' rather than as 'truths.

Christopher Goto-Jones

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#40. I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

Jia Qinglin

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#41. Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

Francis Arinze

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#42. It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

Albert Einstein

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#43. The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Karl Marx

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#44. Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach them respect and a love for the rich and diverse traditions America has to offer them.

Jennifer Chrisler

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#45. By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.

Thomas Keating

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#46. We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

Vincent Massey

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#47. Our aim here is not to prove that Jesus is superior to other spiritual masters and traditions. But he really is different, and we should acknowledge it.

Dallas Willard

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#48. It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us.
-MUKTA

Amita Trasi

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#49. We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)

Karen Armstrong

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#50. The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Winston Churchill

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#51. The more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another.

Elias Hicks

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#52. The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#53. Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

Ban Ki-moon

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#54. The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

George Santayana

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#55. Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same without the infusion of Asian traditions. Whether it is food, art, language or any other facet of cultural life, Asian Americans have made our city and our country stronger and richer.

Nydia Velazquez

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#56. The right to life of a woman should not be contingent on her obedience of social norms and traditions.A.Prasad(Venkat Seminar )

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

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#57. Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown

Frederick Lenz

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#58. Deception, I came to realize, was one of the few remaining oral traditions.

Alex Stone

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#59. The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

Sharon Salzberg

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#60. Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real ... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.

Jerry Bridges

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#61. Traditions brings continuity to one's existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lost
throughout modernity.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

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#62. Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production.

Murray Rothbard

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#63. If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

Max McKeown

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#64. The way the knowledge of the spectator is drawn upon in constructing the scene, through the stylized performance, ritual motifs and auditory address that arise from a host of Indian aesthetic and performance traditions.

Anonymous

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#65. To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Bill Shorten

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#66. The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state.

Okakura Kakuzo

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#67. The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up.

Terry Pratchett

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#68. Secure in whom we are, rooted in one particular tradition or none at all, we have no reason to fear discovering God in the truth and wisdom of many traditions. Love casts out fear inviting us into happiness for all people and Creation.

Robert V. Taylor

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#69. ... religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes.

Kathleen Norris

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#70. While there are plenty of 'man-made' traditions that are harmful, it comes as a complete shock to most believers that there are traditions instituted by God that can make His Word of no effect.

Paul Silway

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#71. It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters.

Charles Emmerson

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#72. I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer.

Cameron Diaz

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#73. An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.

Shane Black

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#74. 'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

Katie Leung

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#75. A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

Aga Khan IV

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#76. People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

Daisaku Ikeda

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#77. A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

Laila Lalami

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#78. The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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#79. studios down. (He also thought, frankly, that making us the stewards of both entities would guarantee that Pixar's traditions didn't get overtaken by those of the much larger corporation, the Walt Disney Company.)

Ed Catmull

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#80. I'm talking about just as an ongoing, everyday matter of daily life, one of the most destructive things if not the most is radical liberalism, leftism. And it is clear that they are making great strides in corrupting once-great institutions and once-great traditions.

Rush Limbaugh

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#81. It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.

Nelson Peltz

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#82. I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant work of Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, Loic Wacquant, Nancy Fraser, Tony Judt, and others.

Henry Giroux

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#83. History covers the Texas landscape like a multi-covered quilt, each square particular to different cultures and traditions.

G.H. Lambert

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#84. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions,

Staffan De Mistura

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#85. Name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world.

Laila Lalami

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#86. Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

Karen Armstrong

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#87. Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.

David Novak

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#88. Florentine cuisine is surely something worth discovering. I believe I learned a lot about Florentine culture and traditions from observing how they live their relationship with food.

Elaine Bertolotti

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#89. We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

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#90. The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

Harold Innis

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#91. One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.

Isabel Allende

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#92. I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

Jodi Picoult

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#93. Christmas Eve is my favorite ... I think the anticipation is more fun than anything else. I kind of lost that. The idea that something - food, traditions, an arbitrary date on the calendar - can be special because we decide it should be. We make it special. Not just for ourselves, but for others.

Kiersten White

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#94. A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

Vikas Khanna

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#95. I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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#96. I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

Kathy Freston

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#97. We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Barbara Jordan

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#98. We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong ... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

Alexander Bickel

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#99. Traditions built upon Truth are eternal."

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

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#100. As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

Paul Robeson

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