393 Quotes About Originality

Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.

We know, we feel that everything has been said, that there is nothing left to say. But we feel less that this truth affords language a strange, even unsettling status which redeems it. Words are ultimately saved because they have ceased living.

Norms without original thinking brings societal progress to a halt, original thinking without norms makes the society unstable.

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