Men Quote by Pliny the Elder

Human nature is fond of novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Human nature craves novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what…

— Anonymous

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

— Honore de Balzac

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends…

— Aldous Huxley

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

— Terence McKenna

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.

— Anonymous

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Man must go back to nature for information.

— Thomas Paine