Originality Quotes, Sayings about being original
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.
- Thomas Carlyle
Simplicity with originality is better than super beautiful but imitation.
There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
- Richard Russo
You were born God’s original. Try not to become someone’s copy.
- Marian Wright Edelman
I am not an originator but a transmitter.
- Confucius
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
- Jean Cocteau
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
- Thomas Carlyle
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
- Edward G Bulwer- Lytton
You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
- Bernadette Peters
An envious heart can’t be original.
- Toba Beta
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
- James Stephens
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
- Thomas W Higginson
Originality is merely an illusion.
- MC Escher
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
- Kahlil Gibran
Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
- Benjamin Franklin
Insist upon yourself. Be original.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
- John Stuart Mill
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
- John Stuart Mill