Tradition is a foolish man’s excuse for not thinking
– Joshua AyalaArias
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- Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself. – Gregory Woods
- When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and… No thinking is far better then positive thinking – Ed Strachar
- The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty. – David Berliner
- Don’t use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!! – Bernard Kelvin Clive
- The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night. – SA Tawks
- One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered. – Criss Jami
- Before sex, a man isn’t thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn’t. – Sherry Argov
- To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it. – Joan Lowery Nixon
- …food was at least three million per cent more delicious when you ate it immediately after thinking you were going to die. – Joshua Donellan
- One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment. – Joshua Ferris
- Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy’s lap was already creepy enough. We didn’t need to mix alcohol into it. – Richelle Mead
- Books hold no passports. There’s only one true literary tradition: the human. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience. – Neville Goddard
- The solitude of women’s minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it’s a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition. – Elena Ferrante
- Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. – George S Patton Jr
- I do not follow any tradition. I may stand at the beginning of one. – Avijeet Das
- There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible. – Fatema Mernissi
- He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it. – Frank Herbert
- Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. – Simon Gray
- Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. – JayZ
- When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. – Kate Chopin
- The limits are pushed by our resolve to succeed beyond tradition. – Dallas Palmer
- If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity – Soke Behzad Ahmadi
- Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold. – JE Cross
- When in doubt, favor compassionover certainty or tradition. – Ivan M Granger
- In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don’t know. – Elizabeth Kostova
- My family has a Christmas tradition: Every year, they kill my mom. – James Aquilone
- If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself. – Bruce Lee
- We always humble ourselves before bastards – it has already become a tradition. – Igor Eliseev
- Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born. – Aldous Huxley
- That’s what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures. – Nichole Chase
- Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s ‘tradition. – DaShanne Stokes
- we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other. – Patrick Hennessey
- Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. – Gustav Mahler
- As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging. – Lundy Bancroft
- Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality. – Bernard E Rollin
- Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket – Harold Bloom