Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.
Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. They surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one else has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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