Quotes
Quotes about Originality
Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Behind the words of Jesus and the memories about him, there shines forth a self-authenticating portrait of a real person in all his human uniqueness, an impression which is accessible alike to the layman and to the expert, to believer and non-believer. No reader of the gospel story can fail to be impressed by Jesus' humble submission to the will of his God on the one hand, and his mastery of all situations on the other; by his penetrating discernment of human motives and his authoritative demand of radical obedience on the one hand, and his gracious, forgiving acceptance of sinners on the other. There is nothing, either in the Messianic hopes of pre-Christian Judaism or in the later Messianic beliefs of the early Christian Church to account for this portrait. It is characterized by an originality and freshness which is beyond the power of invention. (Continued tomorrow).
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.
When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.
The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize a set of facts, and that no one has any claim to be considered as a serious rival to Darwin in the "discovery" of this theory who did not conduct his evolutionary studies upon a reasonably wide basis of facts. To have ideas, apercus, is not enough, and it is the overevalutation of such clever but uncontrolled guesses which is apt to produce the ludicrous fallacy of combination, in which fragments of the final theory are collected from widely scattered sources and are combined in such a way as to impugn the originality of him who was the first to see how such a synthesis was possible.
