Nothing New Quotes

• There is nothing new under the sun.

  Jon Meacham

  Science, Old Things, Sun

  Jon Meacham (2012). “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power”, p.355, Random House

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• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Truth, Vision

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.43, A&C Black

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• No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

  Nas

  Ideas, Old Things, Sun

  Song: No Idea's Original

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• There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

  Jules Breton

  Old Things, Sun, Originality

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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  There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

  Marie Antoinette

  Creativity, Creative, Historical

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• To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Thought Provoking, Steps

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• When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

  Lionel Richie

  Past, Answers, Forget The Past

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• I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Discovery, Years

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• This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Dust, Tree

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage

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• There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past.

  Dave Liebman

  Past, Roots, Jazz

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• There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

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• Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Good Things

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• The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

  Samuel Beckett

  Alternatives, Sun, Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.71, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New Day, Looks, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3883, Delphi Classics

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• I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

  Nick Lowe

  Lonely, Glasses, Sound

  Song: I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass, Album: Jesus of Cool

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• There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rome

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

  James Richardson

  Opposites, Rivers, Smell

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• I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

  Henry Ford

  Years, Car, Connections

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• I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

  Camille Claudel

  Two, Paris, New Life

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• No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

  Richard Branson

  Mean, Risk, No Failure

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2013

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• Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they’re played out.

  Vaclav Smil

  Boys, Iphone, Color

  "This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.

  Conor Oberst

  Believe, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

  James Mattis

  Military, Real, Mean

  "General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email About Being 'Too Busy To Read' Is A Must-Read" by Geoffrey Ingersoll, www.businessinsider.com. May 09, 2013.

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• No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

  Honor Blackman

  Want, Avengers

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• I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Discovery, Century

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