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

History is riddled with blood and sin. — John Eldredge

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. — Loretta Lynn

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future. — Michael Kadoorie

Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself. — Gregory Woods

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. — Max Born

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. — Oscar Wilde

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States. — Adam Hochschild

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history? — K.P. Yohannan

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition. — John Adams

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us. — Learned Hand

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past
no matter how good it was. — Jeff Bezos

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts. — Igor Babailov

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. — Henry Ford

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history. — Pamela Geller

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole. — Moses Finley

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together! — Mark Twain

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy — Seamus Costello

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar. — Jefferson Davis

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. — Joyce Carol Oates

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly. — Nursultan Nazarbayev

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history — Michelle Obama

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition. — Rory Stewart

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning. — Sister Nivedita

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. — Tom G. Palmer

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. — Henry James

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented. — Nancy Pelosi

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition. — Gracie Gold

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that. — Ricky Williams

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. — Paula McLain