Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. — Steve Lacy
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. — George Henry Lewes
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without… — C.S. Lewis
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell… — Marilyn Manson
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in… — Steve Martin
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction… — W. Somerset Maugham
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. — Andre Maurois
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. — Bernard Meltzer
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. — Herman Melville
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. — John Stuart Mill
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. — John Stuart Mill
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate. — David Neeleman
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. — Conan O'Brien
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. — Laurence J. Peter
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. — Beatrix Potter
I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark… — Julia Roberts
I invent nothing, I rediscover. — Auguste Rodin
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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