As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.