Simplicity with originality is better than super beautiful but imitation.
You were born an original. Don’t become a copy.
You were born an original.Don’t die a copy.
To be authentic is literally to be your own author …, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.
There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
Just as a photocopied article is without colour so is anyone who desires to be like someone else.
An envious heart can’t be original.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
God’s original prototype, too weird to live, too rare to die.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Once you learn a language you will never have an original thought.
Because every aspect of your thoughts are defined in words that already exist.
At best you can be somewhat of an inventor, like combining a spoon and a fork.
What technology today is really new? Most just seem a combination of two or more old things.
Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.
Originality is merely an illusion.
Insist upon yourself. Be original.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
If you walk in the footprints of others, you won’t make any of your own.
Be bold or italic, never regular.
Dare to be different. The world is full of the ordinary.
Don’t live in someone’s shadow; you’ll just be stuck in the dark.
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
One of the hardest yet best things is to accept who you are.
Nothing in Christianity is original.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
I’d rather live the life of an unknown original than to live a life of a famous clone.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
Be yourself. The world worships the original.