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Originality is the art of concealing your sources
Originality is the art of concealing your sources
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think read more
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
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.
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.
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 principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
