Absolute truth Quote by Immanuel Kant

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

— Anonymous

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

— John Dryden

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Imitation is criticism.

— William Blake

“Our law and our morality contradict one another.”

— Joseph Befumo

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

— Thomas Gainsborough

Imitation is limitation exposed.

— Tasneem Hameed

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

— Mary Parker Follett

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism.…

— Samuel Johnson

“Unknowing imitation is almost a recipe for bad design. If you don’t know where your ideas are coming from, you’re probably imitating an imitator.”

— Paul Graham

“People will copy what you do and how you do it, but they can never copy WHY you are.”

— Zach Mercurio