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As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remark able man.
J.M. Barrie (1860-1937) British playwright.
Originality consists in thinking for yourself and not in thinking unlike other people.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no difference between men.
A man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
W.R.Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St. Paul’s, London.
Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician.
Damn those who said our good things before us.
Aelius Donatus (4th century) Roman grammarian.
Everything has been said and we come more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Jean de la Bruyere (1645-1696) French writer, moralist.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Dr.Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor’s, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire.
One couldn’t carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
George Eliot.
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.
Goethe.
A well cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
Fontenelle.
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
T.W.Higginson.
If we can advance propositions both true and new, these are our own by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old, more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own by right of conquest.
Colton.
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing mans is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.
Carlyle.
They who have light in themselves, will not revolve as satellites.
Anon.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do.
Channing.
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both by right of conquest and of discovery.
Colton.
One of the best uses of originality is, to say common things in an uncommon way.
He who thinks for himself, and rarely imitates, is a free man.
Klopstock.
It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.
Niebuhr.
It is almost impossible for any one who reads much, and reflects a good deal, to be able, on every occasion, to determine whether a thought was another’s or his own. I have several times quoted sentences out of my own writings, in aid of my own arguments, in conversation, thinking that I was supporting them by some better authority.
Sterne.
J.M. Barrie (1860-1937) British playwright.
Originality consists in thinking for yourself and not in thinking unlike other people.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no difference between men.
A man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
W.R.Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St. Paul’s, London.
Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician.
Damn those who said our good things before us.
Aelius Donatus (4th century) Roman grammarian.
Everything has been said and we come more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Jean de la Bruyere (1645-1696) French writer, moralist.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Dr.Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor’s, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire.
One couldn’t carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
George Eliot.
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.
Goethe.
A well cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
Fontenelle.
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
T.W.Higginson.
If we can advance propositions both true and new, these are our own by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old, more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own by right of conquest.
Colton.
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing mans is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.
Carlyle.
They who have light in themselves, will not revolve as satellites.
Anon.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do.
Channing.
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both by right of conquest and of discovery.
Colton.
One of the best uses of originality is, to say common things in an uncommon way.
He who thinks for himself, and rarely imitates, is a free man.
Klopstock.
It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.
Niebuhr.
It is almost impossible for any one who reads much, and reflects a good deal, to be able, on every occasion, to determine whether a thought was another’s or his own. I have several times quoted sentences out of my own writings, in aid of my own arguments, in conversation, thinking that I was supporting them by some better authority.
Sterne.
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