Ideas Quote by Robert Genn

Human nature is fond of novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something…

— Samuel Johnson

You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To…

— 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

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

— Ian Bogost

With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication…

— John Paul Caponigro

The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us,…

— John Ruskin

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Human nature craves novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

— Honore de Balzac