Novelty Quotes

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

— Heinrich Heine

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

— Terence McKenna

“our brains can’t ignore novelty.”

— Anonymous

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

— Joshua Foer

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

— Honore de Balzac

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

— Samuel Johnson

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

— Berthe Morisot

“[...] interactive media is no longer a novelty [...]—it is an expectation.”

— Philip Hughes

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

— Alanis Morissette

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

— Aristotle

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.

— George Michael

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever…

— Anonymous

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number,…

— Sophie Tucker

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late…

— Margaret Laurence

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

— Jill Lepore

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of…

— Derren Brown

Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might…

— Edmund White

He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders…

— David Miliband

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!…

— Blaise Pascal

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short…

— Joshua Foer

This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming…

— Pope Francis

You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your…

— Terence McKenna

We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of…

— Pope Gregory XVI

To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over...…

— William James

“All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries baggage from…

— Julio Cortázar

Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen,…

— Steve Lopez

Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions…

— Laura Riding

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself…

— Alfred North Whitehead

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be…

— Anonymous

Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and…

— Ernst Mayr