Talk:Tradition

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 * All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
 * Aristotle


 * Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
 * Mark Twain


 * ...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.
 * William Graham Sumner


 * In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.
 * Joseph Jastrow


 * Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
 * Francis Bacon


 * Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
 * Lewis Mumford


 * Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
 * Joseph Addison


 * The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
 * Kate Chopin


 * People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
 * R. Buckminster Fuller