Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number,… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write… — Nina Gordon Copy Share Image
This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new,… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
