Novelty Quotes

By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.

Dan Cruickshank

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

Abraham Maslow

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Edmund Burke

Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility.

Legal Maxim

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

Carl Rogers

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

Jean de la Bruyere

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Stephen Jay Gould

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

Henry David Thoreau

What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.

Blaise Pascal

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

Andre Gide

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Marcel Proust

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 Lippman

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Samuel Johnson

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Wendell Berry

Snowboarding's relevance has expanded into a much broader audience who is accepting it as a sport, not as a novelty act.

Peter Carlisle