Quotes About Novelty

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.

I love going out and doing new things.

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

I love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.

Today is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.

Curiosity is the far nobler sister of novelty. Curiosity invokes study. By definition, it is "interest leading to inquiry."[1] It does not look for diamonds on blades of grass; it looks for dew. If it's looking for diamonds, it mines. Curiosity isn't satisfied to climb a hill and then move on. To borrow words from Deuteronomy, it digs copper from them (Deuteronomy 8:9).

It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap and quick and easy; we want variety; and we want novelty. But friendship requires a whole other set of mind.

There's always something else. That's what makes life so much fun.

You will learn that rejection and abandonment are danger cues that plunge us into real physical pain, that sexual infatuation and novelty are overrated, and that even the most distressed couples can repair their bond if they are guided to deal with their emotions a little differently.

If you try to nibble away the monotony of a dull half hour, it's important to try stimulating your brain in a different way. When you do something new, you actually change your brain chemistry. Sensations and experiences you've never encountered before create new neural pathways.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

An argument can be made—a rigorous, persuasive argument—that every good new thing results from a teeming complexity.

la mayor miseria del historicismo es que no es capaz de pensar el cambio en las condiciones de novedad que impone el mismo cambio; de ahí su idea de que hay un destino histórico de acuerdo con el cual las entidades cambian desarrollando su esencia latente (cultural o económica). Cualquier

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting

An innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption.

Other examples of fads are hula hoops, mood rings, flip-up sunglasses, and umbrella-hats.

Love is a feeling you feel, when you are about to fill a feeling you've never felt before.

Mosca had never tasted power before. It was a little like the feeling the gin had given her, but without the bitterness and the numbness in her nose.

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.

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?