Save Only the Best of the Old Ways

By: chimithen on 7/22/2016 06:02:00 AM

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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 May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan