Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old originality quotes, originality sayings, and originality proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Arthur Koestler
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. Eric Hoffer
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Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step. Mason Cooley
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Originality consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people. Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
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Originality consists not only in doing things differently, but also in "doing things better." Edward Stedman
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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. 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 favour. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you have an original idea use it carefully so you won't look like you've just put on a new suit.Jean Cocteau
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. John Stuart Mill
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Originality is undetected plagiarism. Dean Inge
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamor for, and constantly quarrel with. Thomas Carlyle
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe. You can't take a taxi. Alan Alda
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The truth is that the propensity of man to imitate what is before him is one of the strongest parts of his nature.Walter Bagehot
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert intergrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton
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Let's have some new clichés. Sam Goldwyn
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Posterity weaves no garlands for the actor. Friedrich von Schiller
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Nothing has yet been said that's not been said before. Terence
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. Mark Twain
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. Henri Matisse
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met. Fran Lebowitz
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What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them. Those with originality have for the most part also assigned names. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Make it a practice to keep on the lookout for novel and interesting ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you are working on. Thomas Edison
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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
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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 educate during all this time. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.Thomas Carlyle
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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. William Ellery Channing
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No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.P. T. Barnum
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I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that. Tabu
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Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning. Adam Grant
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We all have a certain duality / A self that is us and one virtuality / Self question your originality / Material-ity creates artificiality / Multiple personality is what you start to see / Which one is me and who only I aspire to be / As different as they seem it's merely ocean and sea / Your dreams have formed this self appointee.Abaculus