Outdated Ideas Quotes

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

Future generations of economists will look at the trickle-down theory in much the same way we now look at witch burning, slavery, and the Sinclair C5.

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.

Hollywood's not a progressive place. Everyone likes to think that Hollywood is hip, but it's not hip at all.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.

People want new faces. And I don't blame them. It's just getting difficult for us oldsters to get anyone to take notice.

I think I'm very old-fashioned.

I am ridiculously old-fashioned.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

I'm old-fashioned.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I am a bit old-school.

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.