393 Quotes About Originality

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Imitations only better the original.

No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.

Creativity can solve almost any problem,

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.