Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

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
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. — George Eliot
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. — Edward Carpenter
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. — James Russell Lowell
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom… — Hugh Prather
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. — Robert Henri
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. — Antonio Gaudi
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of… — Benjamin Disraeli
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac

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