ORIGINALITY

Related Subjects: Cleverness, Imagination, Individuality, Invention, Novelty, Wit

1. No bird has ever uttered note
   That was not in some first bird's throat;
   Since Eden's freshness and man's fall
   No rose has been original.—T. B. ALDRICH, Originality
   

2. Not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
   

3. The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.—CARLYLE, Heroes & Hero-Worship
   

4. What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.—EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims
   

5. Originality provokes originality.—GOETHE, Spruche in Prosa
   

6. A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.—O. W. HOLMES, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
   

7. Originality is undetected plagiarism.—DEAN INGE
   

8. He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.—CHARLES LAMB, Detached Thoughts on Books & Reading
   

9. Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.—J. S. MILL, On Liberty
   

10. All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.—J. S. MILL, On Liberty