“ Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
- 369
“ What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2K
“ The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
- 70
“ Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home. ”
- Shelby Foote- Copy
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“ I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
- 392
“ Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. ”
- James Stephens- Copy
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“ Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. ”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer- Copy
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“ I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff. ”
- Jessica Simpson- Copy
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“ Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility. ”
- Legal Maxim- Copy
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“ Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
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“ There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing. ”
- Raymond Radiguet- Copy
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“ What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. ”
- John Bradshaw- Copy
- 3K
“ Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ”
- Jackie Chan- Copy
- 1.1K
“ There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 746
“ It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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