Originality Quotes, Sayings about being original - Page 2
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings
True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.
- Edith Wharton
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
- Clive Barker
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Lawrence J. Peters
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
- Voltaire
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
- François- René de Chateaubriand
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
God’s original prototype, too weird to live, too rare to die.
- Hunter S. Thompson
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
- Banksy
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
- Ken Robinson
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
- Jorge Luis Borges
You were born an original.Don’t die a copy.
- John Mason
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
- Stephen Fry
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.
- Chuck Palahniuk