“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.”
John Stuart Mill
“Insist upon yourself. Be original.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Originality is the art of concealing your sources”
Benjamin Franklin
“Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality”
Kahlil Gibran
“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.”
Buddha
“The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”
Lao Tzu