Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. Votes: 5
John Stuart MillOriginality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. Votes: 4
Alan AldaOriginality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. Votes: 3
Katharine Fullerton GerouldOriginality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. Votes: 3
George Henry LewesOriginality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. Votes: 3
Salman RushdieOriginality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. Votes: 3
William Ralph IngeOriginality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. Votes: 3
Thomas CarlyleOriginality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different. Votes: 3
Guy DavenportOriginality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it. Votes: 3
Steve AylettOriginality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. Votes: 3
Walter Darby BannardOriginality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. Votes: 3
H. W. JansonOriginality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Votes: 3
VoltaireOriginality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. Votes: 3
Nnamdi AzikiweOriginality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done. Votes: 3
Stephen DunnOriginality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny. Votes: 3
Bradford WintersOriginality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Votes: 3
Laurence J. PeterOriginality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. Votes: 3
Georges SeuratOriginality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life. Votes: 3
Barbara SherNothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. Votes: 2
Chuck PalahniukThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Votes: 1
Beatrix PotterImitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonOur purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence. Votes: 0
Harbhajan Singh YogiHuman nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellGreat men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity. Votes: 0
Edwin LandHe has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. Votes: 0
Charles LambThrow away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality. Votes: 0
Charles Haddon SpurgeonWhat the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawStyle is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed. Votes: 0
Lester BangsThe writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirNearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireDemonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent. Votes: 0
Viacheslav PlatonovTo admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTalent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertIt's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking. Votes: 0
Ronan FarrowThe principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Votes: 0
Arthur Koestleroriginality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. Votes: 0
Fyodor Dostoyevskyoriginality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyGreat success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. Votes: 0
Edward CarpenterPeople who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. Votes: 0
John MillerYour turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality Votes: 0
David MitchellMy originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. Votes: 0
Odilon RedonWe should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. Votes: 0
Raymond RadiguetWhat is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. Votes: 0
Arthur KoestlerAs long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens. Votes: 0
David MitchellThat one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality. Votes: 0
Jeaniene FrostThe prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know Votes: 0
Arthur KoestlerYoung men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with. Votes: 0
Frank CrowninshieldI'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters. Votes: 0
Paul FryDo not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. Votes: 0
Robert HenriAs a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomeryTo this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any. Votes: 0
Les PaulJust keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate. Votes: 0
David Neeleman