The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man. – Thomas Carlyle
Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. – Arthur Koestler
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. – Lawrence J. Peters
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. – Dorothy L. Sayers
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes. – Banksy
There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original. – Richard Russo
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. – John Stuart Mill
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. – Voltaire
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. – James Stephens
You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for? – Bernadette Peters
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Just as a photocopied article is without colour so is anyone who desires to be like someone else.
I’d rather live the life of an unknown original than to live a life of a famous clone.
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality. – Kahlil Gibran
An envious heart can’t be original. – Toba Beta
Nothing in Christianity is original. – Dan Brown
Insist upon yourself. Be original. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. – Abraham Lincoln
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. – Voltaire
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