Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease… — Orson Scott Card
He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece.… — Brandon Sanderson
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle… — J C Ryle
For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a… — Wolfgang Laib
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. .… — Joyce Brothers
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations… — Lewis Mumford
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,… — Max Nordau
The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that… — Leland Ryken
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. — Peyton Manning
Discipling involves instruction and imitation. — Mark Dever
Against the odds, John Carter is itself pretty amazing-an epic pulp saga that slowly rises to the level of its best imitations and wins you… — Ty Burr
One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words.... To… — Swami Vivekananda
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the… — James Boswell
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may… — James Boswell
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography… — Edward Steichen
It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the… — Samuel Johnson
Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. — Eric Hoffer
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches… — Thomas Jefferson
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. — John Updike
Imitation is criticism. — William Blake
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems… — Gore Vidal

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