Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. — Susan Sarandon
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end. — Samuel Johnson
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more. — Jean de la Bruyere
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. — Robert Bresson
All cases are unique and very similar to others. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself? — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule. — Alberto Juantorena
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little… — Samuel Johnson
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;… — Samuel Johnson
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The… — Samuel Johnson
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some… — Samuel Johnson
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the… — Samuel Johnson
To do nothing is in everyone's power. — Samuel Johnson
A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except… — Ernest Howard Crosby
Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. — Aldous Huxley
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. — Patrick Kavanagh
Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you. — Unknown Author
To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be… — Tom Stoppard
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival. — Michael O'Brien
Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't. — Eli Siegel

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