Diogenes
Philosopher
"One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings"
Original Thought quotes
Original Thought
24 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Fran Lebowitz
Author, Essayist
"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"Only those with no memory insist on their originality."
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast."
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"I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it"
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