Original Thought Quotes
33 quotes by 31 authors
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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
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
— Barbara Tuchman
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.
— Bob Dylan
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The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.
— David Ogilvy
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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
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We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought
— Shirley Temple
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Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.
— Pat Condell
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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
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Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
— Johan Huizinga
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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
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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
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
— Diogenes
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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
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
— Vittorio Alfieri
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
— Fran Lebowitz
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
— Abraham Lincoln
Who Wrote These Original Thought Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 33 Original Thought Quotes, led by these top contributors: