Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.… — Aesop
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They… — Susan Sontag
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we… — Quintilian
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and… — Gerald Brenan
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.… — Richard Dawkins
All art is an imitation of nature. — Seneca the Elder
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. — Walter Lippmann
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.… — Thomas Jefferson
Don`t imitate: imitation creates falsity, pseudo-ness, inauthenticity. Just feel your own way and don`t bother about what others say. It is nobody else`s business. Don`t… — Rajneesh
Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation. — Rajneesh
The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are. — Rajneesh
Don`t imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that`s a way of avoiding knowing yourself. — Rajneesh
Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever they are teaching… — Rajneesh
Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy -… — Rajneesh
If you try to become a buddha, one thing is certain - you will not be able to become yourself. One thing only is certain… — Rajneesh
People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That destroys their freshness.… — Rajneesh
Don`t be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas… — Rajneesh

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