Deepak Chopra Quotes

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

In modern Western culture, the new is considered better than the old, and thus change itself is considered good; in tradition bound Arab cultures, the old is considered better than the new, and thus the retention of the existing order is good.

Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.

Sometimes, when a tide starts to sweep, it makes no difference what the traditions are.

The masses of the people are no lovers of changes which run counter to immemorial custom

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Where a bad custom has been in existence for any length of time, most people grow to regard it as part of the order of nature.

The conventional wisdom of the United States is not always the right conventional wisdom.

Do not overthrow the custom that has made it all the way to you.

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

How will the world change if we do not question it?

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

Progress is a set of assumptions.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

You were the dead; theirs was the future.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.