Novelty Quotes - Page 3

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

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

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

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.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]

Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

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.

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.