Quotes
Quotes about Imitation
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Memory as a human faculty is subject to human limitation and we are condemned to invent so much of the past
Don't make an ideology out of your limitations.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to the statement that God's power is not limited by anything outside His own creative purpose: in that sense He is omnipotent, but it is even impossible for Him to exercise that power in certain ways without thereby ceasing to be our Father. In that sense God is not omnipotent: He is limited by His own nature, by His perfect goodness and mercy; for the omnipotence of God means nothing apart from His Fatherly love. In particular, this limitation of the power of God is to be found in the measure of freedom which, as His children, we enjoy. God shares His power with us so that, for a time at least, if we so determine, we can break His laws and frustrate His plans, but also so that we can give to Him, if we choose, the free allegiance of our hearts and minds, and become children at His Family Table, drawn together by the compulsion of His love, and not the exercise of His might.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
The Bill of RightsâThe Original Contract With America. Accept no substitutes. Beware of imitations. Insist on the genuine articles.
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, the blow with an agreement.
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. -Israel Zangwill.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
