Attributes Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national…

— Ibrahim Babangida

The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the…

— Roberto Unger

Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a…

— George Stillman Hillard

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state…

— Andrzej Wajda

The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first…

— Carl Rogers

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

— Wendell Berry

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new…

— Samuel Johnson

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

— Daniel Kahneman

“In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.”

— Walter de la Mare