Frank Pittman Quotes

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Change is no threat to culture.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him as a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man’s foot and stops him forever from advancing.

History shows us that the youth are usually a step ahead of their elders when change is required.

Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary.

Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

Each time these pioneers expanded into new realms, they discovered the old ways wouldn't work. Whenever a new domain was inhabited by humans, old survival patterns were left behind and new patterns created.

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

The world is kept alive only by heretics.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and courts of old; but how few of those former places can their posterity trace, amid avenues of modern erections; to how few is the old guide-book now a clew! Every age makes its own guide-books, and the old ones are used for waste paper.

There is no road, the road is made by walking.

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.