Confucius Quotes

Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers... Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

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

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

But I think it's important that things endure.

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are preserved by quotations.

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

I think that our comfort is in our history.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.