Firsts Quote by Bertrand Russell

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

— Anonymous

We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Newness” has a sort of mystical draw, even though it's incredibly short-lived and rarely meets expectations”

— David DiSalvo

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

— Pearl S. Buck

Nothing is new, all is rehash.

— Sacha Guitry

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

— William James

The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it…

— Robert M. Pirsig

What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.

— William Sargant

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

— Hyman Rickover

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually…

— Robert Hass

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a…

— Albert Einstein

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

— Chris Kraus