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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

— Alexander Smith

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✓Similar Perspectives

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

— Dee Hock

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

— Paracelsus

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

— Boris Yeltsin

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

— George Washington Carver

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

— Audre Lorde

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

— Elias Canetti

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

— Alfred North Whitehead

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

— Robert Hass

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