Nothing New Under The Sun Quotes:

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

- Solomon

topic: Done, Sun, Ecclesiastes, Nothing New Under The Sun

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

- Marie Antoinette

topic: Creativity, Creative, Historical, Nothing New, Nothing New Under The Sun

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

- John Piper

topic: Sun, Endless, Nothing New, Waste Of Life, Nothing New Under The Sun

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

- Solomon

topic: Done, Sun, Ecclesiastes, Nothing New, Nothing New Under The Sun

Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

- John Lennon

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Wakes You, Nothing New Under The Sun

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

- Ambrose Bierce

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

topic: Learning, Science, Old Things, Nothing New Under The Sun

Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice, in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

- Paracelsus

topic: Ocean, Fall, Ignorance, Submerged, Desert Sand

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

topic: Men, Differences, Sun, All Things New, Nothing New

Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded, as though intuitively aware that there is nothing new under the sun. Throughout the physical world, from the cosmic to the subatomic, the same refrain resounds. Conservation: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

- Natalie Angier

source: Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Law, Ideas, Redwoods, Tenacious

The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Joy, Progress, World, Newness, Nothing New Under The Sun

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

topic: Giving, Curiosity, May, Savour, Nothing New

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

- Pharrell Williams

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, People, Intuition, Nothing New, Nothing New Under The Sun

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

- Nas

source: Song: No Idea's Original

topic: Ideas, Sun, Done, Nothing New Under The Sun

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

- Robert Plant

topic: Sun, Paint, Nothing New, Nothing New Under The Sun

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

- James Mattis

source: "General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email About Being 'Too Busy To Read' Is A Must-Read" by Geoffrey Ingersoll, www.businessinsider.com. May 09, 2013.

topic: Military, Real, Mean, Nothing New Under The Sun

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

- John Lennon

topic: Inspirational, Rome, People, Nothing New Under The Sun

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

- Nas

topic: Ideas, Sun, Waste Of Life, Contradicting, Ecclesiastes

When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.

- Jacki Weaver

topic: Believe, People, Way, Nothing New Under The Sun

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Vanity, Years, Three, Nothing New Under The Sun

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

- James Richardson

topic: Opposites, Rivers, Smell, Time Is Money, Nothing New Under The Sun

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

- Meshell Ndegeocello

topic: Sun, Bible Thumpers, Nothing New, Nothing New Under The Sun

If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.

- Michael Sims

topic: Fire, Creating, Sun, Nothing New, Nothing New Under The Sun

There is nothing new under the sun.

- Jon Meacham

topic: Sun, Waste Of Life, Ecclesiastes, All Things New, Nothing New

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

- Jules Breton

topic: Sun, Originality, Waste Of Life, Ecclesiastes, All Things New

... there's nothing new under the sun - everything can be traced back to Archimedes or even earlier.

- Stanislaw Ulam

topic: Nothing New Under The Sun