John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
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Originality
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Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"The original is unfaithful to the translation."
Elizabeth Taylor
Actress
"I'm not like anyone. I'm me."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Insist upon yourself. Be original."
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
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"Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism."
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"Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences"
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"From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end."
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"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."
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"They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites."
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"Creativity is the art of concealing your sources."
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"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."
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"The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy."
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"Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing."
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"The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others."
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"All has not been said and never will be."
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"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another."
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"A good imitation is the most perfect originality"
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"It is always better to be an original than an imitation."
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"The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before."
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"The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it."
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"Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality"
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"If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now."
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"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."
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"Only those with no memory insist on their originality."
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