Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

The courage to press on regardless - regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us - is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.

Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.

Today I feel like it's about people just looking fresh and their records aren't fresh.

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.

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.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

Being fresh is more important than having money.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.