87 Quotes About Novelty

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony

It's always new and astonishing when it's yours

Novelty gives immortality and nobility provides a halo of glory to that immortality.

Having everythin is boring; I'm convinced of that. Once you have something - knowledge, skills, possessions - or have achieved something - climbing Mount Everest, for example - it becomes banal.

[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal monotony of passion, always the same forms and the same language.