Books Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

— Voltaire

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

— Benjamin Franklin

Originality is merely an illusion.

— Anonymous

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

— Voltaire

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

— Franklin P. Jones

“To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.”

— Kaela Marooney

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could…

— Thomas Carlyle

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

— Stephen Dunn

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We…

— Voltaire

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

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

— Anonymous

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

— Anonymous