~ Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~
~ Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing. ~
~ The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. ~
~ A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. ~
~ 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. ~
~ 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. ~
~ 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. ~