Nothing New Quotes

• There is nothing new under the sun.

  Jon Meacham

  Science, Old Things, Sun

  Jon Meacham (2012). “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power”, p.355, Random House

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• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Truth, Vision

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.43, A&C Black

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• No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

  Nas

  Ideas, Old Things, Sun

  Song: No Idea's Original

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• There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

  Jules Breton

  Old Things, Sun, Originality

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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  There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

  Marie Antoinette

  Creativity, Creative, Historical

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• To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Thought Provoking, Steps

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• When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

  Lionel Richie

  Past, Answers, Forget The Past

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• I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Discovery, Years

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• This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Dust, Tree

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage

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• There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past.

  Dave Liebman

  Past, Roots, Jazz

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• Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Good Things

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• There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

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• The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

  Samuel Beckett

  Alternatives, Sun, Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.71, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New Day, Looks, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3883, Delphi Classics

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• There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.

  Hari Kunzru

  New York, Likes, Happens

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• I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting for what I do for my private satisfaction or leave to come out after me. For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or to become a slave to defend it.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophy, Science, Men

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• There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

  Robert Plant

  Sun, Paint, Nothing New Under The Sun

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• When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Boys, Two

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• Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Bible Thumpers, Sun, Nothing New Under The Sun

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• The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun" and a God who says "Behold, I make all things new.

  Ronald Knox

  Men, Differences, Sun

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• These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness ­­teenage suicide...all these Jewish sicknesses...that's nothing new. The Talmud's full of things like sex with boys and girls.

  David Duke

  Girl, Suicide, Running

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• Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

  Saskia de Brauw

  Guy, Complicated, It Is What It Is

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• The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, MSNBC will be the station not to report it first.

  Jay Leno

  News, Stories, Firsts

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• There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

  Billy Graham

  Temptation, Firsts, Satan

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving, Curiosity, Degrees

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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