Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, Krishnamurti to Himself

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Virginibus Puerisque

Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Human

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, Think on These Things

The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.

BRUCE LEE, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, Nov. 29, 1944

To hide behind culture or tradition to justify anarchy is a gross insult to the very people whose culture or tradition may be paraded to glorify criminal conduct.

MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY, speech, Jul. 15, 2005

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

JONAH GOLDBERG, National Review Online, Aug. 15, 2001

All tradition is merely the past.

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, Krishnamurti to Himself