What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for read more

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources

Originality is the art of concealing your sources

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.