Novelty Quotes

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. (William Cowper)
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. View quote
Carl Rogers
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. View quote
Helen Fisher
If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn't look like there's very much going on there, but they know more and learn more than we would ever have thought. Every single minute is incredibly full of thought and novelty. It's easy as adults to take for granted everything it took to arrive at the state where we are. View quote
Alison Gopnik
We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on. View quote
Heinrich Rohrer
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In science, as in the playing card experiment, novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. (Thomas Samuel Kuhn)
If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of Jewish literary compositions could justifiably be our primary choice. View quote
Geza Vermes
The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla. View quote
Emil Cioran
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable. View quote
André Maurois
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds... But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values. View quote
Laura Riding
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. ... When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad. View quote
Irving Thalberg
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. View quote
André Gide
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality. (David Riesman)
Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable. View quote
Edmund White
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Human nature craves novelty. View quote
Pliny the Elder
A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking. View quote
Andrzej Wajda