Original Thought Quotes

33 quotes by 31 authors

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
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — Barbara Tuchman
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in… — Thomas Sprat
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student… — Howard Whitley Eves
War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all… — Smedley Butler
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 of California. Ronald… — James Garner
If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now. — Bob Dylan
The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason. — David Ogilvy
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
We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought — Shirley Temple
Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight. — Pat Condell
Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of… — Alain de Botton
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. — Johan Huizinga
When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the… — Lysa TerKeurst
No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to… — Ashly Lorenzana
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings — Diogenes
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects… — Jacob Bronowski
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. — Abraham Lincoln

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