(809 quotes found)
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.”
Joseph Brodsky
“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent”
Will Durant
“Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.”
Jean Guitton
“The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.”
Stephen Neill
“Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
Dante Alighieri
“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”
Warren G. Bennis
“Utter originality is, of course, out of the question”
Ezra Pound
“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”
Claude M. Bristol
