To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn't look like there's very much going on there, but they know more… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we… — William James Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something. As we were walking around in the store, Marilyn and I were just really impressed by all… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don’t have to be re-invented… — Gene Edward Veith Copy Share Image
With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication -… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Ockham snorted. "I am no nominalist. The problem with teaching the Modern Way is that lesser scholars, excited by the novelty, seldom… — Michael Flynn Copy Share Image
If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
“The novelty and freshness you'll bring to the field won't come from the new ideas you think up. Truly new ideas are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks...… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
