Novelty Quotes

• I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

  David Hobson

  Patience, Eye, Garden

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• Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

  Andre Gide

  Unique, Joy, Preparation

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• Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mind, Charm

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• Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

  Joseph Addison

  Entertainment, Usual, Ordinary

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.474

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• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Unique, Essence

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1961). “On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

  Abraham Maslow

  Confidence, Fear, Creativity

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

  Aphra Behn

  Curiosity

  Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.91, 谷月社

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• The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

  Edmund Gosse

  Successful, Secret, Fiction

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• Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

  Iris Murdoch

  Moving, Writing, Surprise

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch”, p.134, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Past, Variation, Tradition

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• A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

  Edward Norton

  "'Fight Club' reunion - Edward Norton wants to reunite on screen with Brad Pitt", www.irishcentral.com. April 18, 2011.

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• All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Wonder, Effects

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• The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Self, Common Sense

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• As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Existence, New Things

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2016). “The Will to Power, Book I to IV: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values (Complete)”, p.370, Library of Alexandria

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• You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

  Christopher Nolan

  Demand, Ruthless, Audience

  Source: deadline.com

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• Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Fear, Views, Absurdity

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

  Will Rogers

  Education, Ignorance, America

  "Will Rogers Speaks". Over 1000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers And Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers...,

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• Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Opposites, Two, Mind

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• Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

  John Polkinghorne

  Mean, Historical, Way

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• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  Irving Thalberg

  Talking, Fads, Welcome

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Judging, Tests, Conformity

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

  Shelby Foote

  Passion, Home, Mind

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• It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

  Blaise Pascal

  Deception, Deceiving, Charm

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.80

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• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  Hannah Arendt

  Odds, Law, Miracle

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.178, University of Chicago Press

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• The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, New Beginnings, Simple

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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