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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. -- Thomas Carlyle
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad. -- Irving Thalberg
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. -- Jean de la Bruyere
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. -- Will Rogers
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty. -- Thomas Hood
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. -- Anthony Burgess
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
Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups. -- Tim Jackson
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
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. -- Walter Lippmann
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
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. -- Baltasar Gracian
Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it. -- Joshua Foer
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive. -- Honore de Balzac
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Novelty in all things is charming. -- Ovid
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. -- Robert South
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. -- Wendell Berry
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept. -- Eva Zeisel
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable. -- Andre Maurois
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature. -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch. -- Anthony Marais
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions. -- Robert Genn
Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend. -- Brandon Sanderson
No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer. -- Raymond Loewy
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. -- Eva Zeisel
As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side. -- Terence McKenna
Divorced?''Separated.'He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' (Novelty) -- John Crowley
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. -- Samuel Johnson
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. -- Samuel Johnson
The new is not a fashion, it is a value. -- Roland Barthes
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. -- Andre Gide
A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. -- Edward Norton
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. -- Robert Bresson
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. -- Simone de Beauvoir
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art. -- Aristotle
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. -- Bil Keane
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy -- Blaise Pascal
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. -- Helen Fisher
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. -- Blaise Pascal
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. -- Carl Rogers
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. -- William Cowper
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. -- Tim Jackson
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
I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music. -- Hannibal Buress
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. -- Ernst Mayr
I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives. -- John Bradley-West
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
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. -- Jean Piaget
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
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin. -- Stewart Brand
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. -- Joshua Foer
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
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable. -- Jonathan Haidt
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the planet, and soon we won't stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet. -- Jason Silva
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
I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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. -- Alison Gopnik
Human nature craves novelty. -- Pliny the Elder
Man naturally yearns for novelty. -- Pliny the Elder
Human nature is fond of novelty. -- Pliny the Elder
Being a novelty had its advantages. -- Jessica Savitch
Awareness is the novelty of our youth -- Brian Triptow
Chance is the only source of true novelty. -- Francis Crick
Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty. -- Tim Jackson
Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty -- Dominic Lawson
The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity. -- W. H. Auden
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty. -- Edmund Gosse
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment. -- Mikhail Lermontov
The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty. -- Alfred North Whitehead
All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy. -- Vincent of Lerins
Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty! -- Pope Pius X
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity. -- Aphra Behn
The novelty we want is always close to the familiar. -- Mason Cooley
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation. -- Marshall McLuhan
I wasnt interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. -- Tom Baker
Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved. -- Terence McKenna
I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. -- Tom Baker
There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself. -- Ben H. Winters
The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla. -- Emile M. Cioran
I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past. -- Berthe Morisot
To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony -- Ilyas Kassam
Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet. -- Isabella Bird
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. -- Henry Adams
Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment. -- Ron Brackin
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. -- Christopher Morley
Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything. -- John Roberts
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty. -- Denis Diderot
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. -- Daniel Kahneman
And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.] -- Ovid
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. -- Wendell Berry
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. -- Nick Cave
It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure. -- Raymond Radiguet
The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right. -- Corinne Maier
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. -- George Leonard
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty. -- Herman Melville
The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome. -- August Bournonville
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. -- Charles Stross
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. -- Ian Bogost
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. -- Erik Naggum
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming. -- Pliny the Elder
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. -- Thomas Kuhn
Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God. -- St. Jerome
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. -- Henry David Thoreau
What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known? -- George Eliot
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty. -- Clement of Alexandria
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them. -- Erin McKean
We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness. -- William James
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me, -- Abigail Washburn
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans. -- Virginia Postrel
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us. -- W. Somerset Maugham

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