Novelty Quotes - Page 2

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.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

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.

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.

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

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

I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

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

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

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

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.