Originality - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66090<![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253<![CDATA[All cases are unique and very similar to others. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45303<![CDATA[All profoundly original work looks ugly at first. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45304<![CDATA[When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45305<![CDATA[Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45306<![CDATA[Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45307<![CDATA[What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45308<![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45309<![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45310<![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45302<![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45300<![CDATA[I invent nothing. I rediscover. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45301<![CDATA[All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45290<![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45291<![CDATA[The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45292<![CDATA[What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45293<![CDATA[When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45294<![CDATA[Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45295<![CDATA[The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45296<![CDATA[Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45297<![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45298<![CDATA[No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45299<![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45282<![CDATA[The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45283<![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45284<![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45285<![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286<![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45287<![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45289<![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45280<![CDATA[Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45281<![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12718<![CDATA[You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3249