Curious Quote by Peter Godfrey-Smith

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

— Thomas Hood

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam.…

— Shelby Foote

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