Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Original Quotes
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.
Originality consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also the most difficult task.
Though old the thought and oft exprest’ ’tis his at last who says it best.
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
