Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality — Khalil Gibran
What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old… — Alfred North Whitehead
Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too… — Alexis Korner
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even… — Kenneth Turan
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. — Yann Martel
Originality is merely an illusion. — M.C. Escher
Do your work, but do your thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things. — Tim Walker
Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is… — Keith Johnstone
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality… — Michael Foley
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. — Blaise Pascal
Originality is only variation. — Holbrook Jackson
Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different."… — Napoleon Hill
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

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