--- title: "10 Original Thoughts Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 10 Original Thoughts quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Original Thoughts sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/r-alan-woods-1455_original-quotes_i-don-t-need-to-always-quote-others-beca_2685276.jpg" --- > [ “I don't need to always quote others because I actually have original thoughts". ~R. Alan Woods \[2012\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-alan-woods/i-don-t-need-to-always-quote-others-because-i-actually-have-original/) [R. Alan Woods](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-alan-woods/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/r-alan-woods-1455_original-quotes_i-don-t-need-to-always-quote-others-beca_2685276.jpg) > [Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/books-serve-to-show-a-man-that-those-original-thoughts-of-his-aren-t-3/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce4/abraham-lincoln-88_book_books-serve-to-show-a-man-that-those-ori_1521298.png) > [“The only original thoughts are the intelligent ones nobody understands.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yecenia-nevarez-aragon/the-only-original-thoughts-are-the-intelligent-ones-nobody-understands/) [Yecenia Nevarez-Aragon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yecenia-nevarez-aragon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ae/yecenia-nevarez-aragon-287815_nobody-understands_the-only-original-thoughts-are-the-intel_2826262.jpg) > [Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vittorio-alfieri/original-thoughts-can-be-understood-only-in-virtue-of-the-unoriginal/) [Vittorio Alfieri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vittorio-alfieri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b7/vittorio-alfieri-21989_elements_original-thoughts-can-be-understood-only_2107032.jpg) > [“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”   Abraham Lincoln”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rriiver-nyile/books-serve-to-show-a-man-that-those-original-thoughts-of-his-aren-t-2/) [Rriiver Nyile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rriiver-nyile/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e0/rriiver-nyile-39572_books_books-serve-to-show-a-man-that-those-ori_1158717.jpg) > [Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/books-serve-to-show-a-man-that-those-original-thoughts-of-his-aren-t/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/abraham-lincoln-88_book_books-serve-to-show-a-man-that-those-ori_27910.png) > [To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/to-put-away-one-s-own-original-thoughts-in-order-to-take-up-a-book-is/) [Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/barbara-tuchman-3945_book_to-put-away-one-s-own-original-thoughts_3101461.png) > [Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/hardly-any-original-thoughts-on-mental-or-social-subjects-ever-make/) [John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stuart-mill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fd/john-stuart-mill-477_assuming_hardly-any-original-thoughts-on-mental-o_644653.png) > [If the original thoughts in life have been coined self with the enthusiasm, energy and effort, then the same empowered person will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anuj-somany/if-the-original-thoughts-in-life-have-been-coined-self-with-the/) [Anuj Somany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anuj-somany/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2f/anuj-somany-782_identity_if-the-original-thoughts-in-life-have-be_659362.jpg) > [“We each have old stories we make new again, the things we tell and twine from time to time. Everything we constantly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-irby/we-each-have-old-stories-we-make-new-again-the-things-we-tell-and/) [Will Irby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-irby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/will-irby-96028_memory_we-each-have-old-stories-we-make-new-aga_2727849.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/original-thoughts/#itemlist", "name": "Original Thoughts Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I don't need to always quote others because I actually have original thoughts\". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "R. 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