Originality Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remark-able man.
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) British playwright
Originality consists in thinking for yourself and not in thinking unlike other people.
J. Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) English jurist, writer
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no difference between men,
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French scientist, philosopher
A man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
W. R. Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St. Paul’s, London
Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician
Damn those who said our good things before us.
AeliusDonatus (4th century) Roman grammarian
Everything has been said and we come more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Jean de la Bruyere (1645-1696) French writer, moralist
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred limes.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician
