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Original Thought Quotes

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

Attributed to Diogenes of Sinope in "Let a simile be your umbrella" by William Safire (p. 364), 2001.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

"Readers recommend: songs that sample, recycle and reinvent" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2014.

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.426

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

"Singer-songwriter Ne-Yo". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 16, 2011.