| Author |
Quotes |
| Aesop | Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. |
| Arthur Koestler | The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. |
| Auguste Rodin | I invent nothing. I rediscover. |
| Barthold Georg Niebuhr | It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life. |
| Clement Greenberg | All profoundly original work looks ugly at first. |
| Dean Inge | What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. |
| Eric Hoffer | When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. |
| Ezra Pound | Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. |
| Fran Lebowitz | Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. |
| John A Shedd | When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. |
| Joshua Reynolds | A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. |
| Nnamdi Azikiwe | Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. |
| Salvador Dali | The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. |
| T S Eliot | All cases are unique and very similar to others. |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. |
| Thomas W Higginson | Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson | Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. |
| Voltaire | Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. |
| George Bernard Shaw | What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. |
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