Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight. — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
“To some people original thought is a medical condition that leads to migraines” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“No such thing as original thought. We are shadows of stars that burned before our time.” — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?,"… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
“I carry a notepad with me at all times, in case life sends me a bumper sticker slogan that I mistake for… — David Boyne Copy Share Image
I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I think if you believe in an idea, then you should put it out there and be as original to the thought… — Farhan Akhtar Copy Share Image
“It bothered Veblen’s mother that most people were lazy and had given up original thought a long time ago, stealing stale phrases… — Elizabeth Mckenzie Copy Share Image
“But there was a difference between being bright and possessing those sparks of ideas that lead to original thought.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
“And then we turn 18 and even though we never had an original thought we have to make the most important decission… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my… — Gregg Popovich Copy Share Image
I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“I’m now convinced that if I think I have an original thought, I just haven’t read enough. So I’m pretty sure others… — David Brisbin Copy Share Image
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“Dream big, they say. Shoot for the stars. Then they lock us away for 12 years and tell where to sit, when… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
“Schooling as it presently exists, like science before and religion before that, is necessary to the continuation of our culture and to… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
“Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor… — James Garner Copy Share Image
“I just can't see the upside in this," I heard myself say by way of explanation. Later he said that if John… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have… — Edward L. Bernays Copy Share Image
“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought. — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought. — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought. — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
