Originality Quotes

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

Edith Wharton

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

Chuck Palahniuk

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do your work, but do your thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

Kahlil Gibran

No man, proclaimed Donne , is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island ) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes-forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

Neil Gaiman

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

Abraham Lincoln

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Thomas Carlyle

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

J.K. Rowling

Originality is the art of concealing your sources

Benjamin Franklin

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the prope

Voltaire

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Abraham Lincoln

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it

George Bernard Shaw

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

Thomas Carlyle

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Blaise Pascal

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Virginia Woolf