Originality Quotes

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One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try… — Robin Meade
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man… — Blaise Pascal
The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of… — Oswald Chambers
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That… — Edith Wharton
It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference… — Maude Royden
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.... — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. — Marianne Moore
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of… — Roger von Oech
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. — Bernard Berenson
Nothing is new except arrangement. — Will Durant
Begin with another's to end with your own. — Baltasar Gracian
Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be… — BrenÃ© Brown
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. — Ezra Pound
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. — Samuel Johnson
They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites. — Seneca the Younger
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be… — Eric Hoffer
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Originality is undetected plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge

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