Quotes of Originality - somelinesforyou

“ The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ 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

“ Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing. ”

- Raymond Radiguet

“ Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. ”

- James Stephens

“ Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. ”

- Voltaire

“ What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ Originality is the art of concealing your source. ”

- Franklin P. Jones

“ Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ”

- Josh Billings

“ All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. ”

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

“ But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe — you can't take a taxi. ”

- Alan Alda

“ The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ”

- Dean William R. Inge

“ Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ”

- Edith Wharton

“ If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. ”

- Richard Feynman

“ I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. ”

- Dolly Parton

“ Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life. ”

- Bette Davis

“ New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt
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