A thoughtful proverb, variously attributed but without detailed sourcing:
| "If you want new ideas, read old books; if you want old ideas, read new books." |
Perhaps a better version, credited to G. K. Chesterton:
| "You can find all the new ideas in the old books; only there you will find them balanced, kept in their place, and sometimes contradicted and overcome by other and better ideas. The great writers did not neglect a fad because they had not thought of it, but because they had thought of it and of all the answers to it as well." |
(cf. Old News (2011-09-16), ...) - ^z - 2016-10-18