Aphorisms Galore!

tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7  ·   Fair (71 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

This is an aphorism from Aphorisms Galore!'s official collection. It was the Aphorism of the Day for 2023-05-24.

(no title)  ·  posted 2015 by Anonymous

"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2