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Without tradition, art is a
flock of sheep without a shepherd.
Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,
for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator,
while the wolf denounces him for the same act
as the destroyer of liberty,
especially as the sheep was a black one.
Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed
upon a definition of the word liberty;
and precisely the same difference
prevails today among us human creatures
- Abraham Lincoln
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
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No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards
our dwellings shape us.
- Winston Churchill
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes
which a man can change at will - and put on at will?
Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Trumpet in a herd of elephants;
crow in the company of cocks;
bleat in a flock of goats.
- Malayan Proverb
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In this outward and physical ceremony,
we attest once again to the inner
and spiritual strength of our Nation.
As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say:
"We must adjust to changing times,
and still hold to unchanging principles."
- Jimmy Carter
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully
between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let spacious plans for a new world
divert your energies from saving
what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Nothing is missing - Lack is an illusion.
We always have everything we truly need.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The believing we do something when we do nothing
is the first illusion of tobacco.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
I want to thank my parents for everything I am today -
fat, miserable, and paranoid.
- Anonymous
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Phyllis Diller
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell [attributed]
(Commissioner, US Patent Office, in 1899)
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
The simple life is everything Vogue isn't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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