Lamps Quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to…

— Andre Gide

“Just as the lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean, so is it with our minds.”

— Jeff Wheeler

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

— John Locke

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

— Stephen Dunn

“The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate beneath the…

— Warren W. Wiersbe

There's a thing about opinions... They are formulated over time. They tend to change with time, and you are going to change your mind…

— Kalki Koechlin

“Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!”

— Apostolos Doxiadis

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes…

— Anonymous

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like…

— Alexander Smith

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

— Edith Wharton

To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn…

— B. J. Palmer

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson