Honor tradition AND question tradition.
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
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
Our best institutions are like young trees growing
upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The fairest thing in nature, a flower,
still has its roots in earth and manure.
- David Herbert Lawrence
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Its not that we need new ideas,
but we need to stop having old ideas.
- Edwin Land
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well.
What comes back is a new morning every day in the year,
and that's better.
- George Edward Woodberry
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery -
courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.
- James Robinson
Further reading: Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind
Roots
Thinking for Yourself
Memories
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