Originality Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Originality Stolen Writing
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have — John Locke Copy Share Image
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didnt see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Desert are you, deluge are you, in a crowd of fakes, only truth is you.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality,… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
If you want to be average, do what others do. If you want to be awesome, do what no one does. — Alexander Den Heijer Copy Share Image
I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul… — Larry Bakersfield Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did mostly complicated,… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
