Original Quotes

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man’s thinking or his writing.

The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none.

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.

Since there are only a few original people in the world, there is more uniformity than one might expect, in view of the large number who think they have something to say.

There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much: Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

There is nothing mysterious about originality, nothing fantastic. Originality is merely the step beyond.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.