Top 43 Original Thoughts Quotes
#1. But a man gifted with original thoughts and the power of expressing them, appears to be regarded by everyone in authority as much worse than the worst criminal, and all the 'jacks-in-office' unite to kick him to death if they can.
Marie Corelli
#2. 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
#3. Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
Vittorio Alfieri
#4. I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.
William Benton Clulow
#5. I don't need to always quote others because I actually have original thoughts".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#6. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Abraham Lincoln
#7. To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Barbara Tuchman
#8. I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.
Joan Bauer
#9. Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.
Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.
Vera Nazarian
#10. It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
Amy Hempel
#11. All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead genius through someone else's clever paradoxes and didactic epigrams.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#12. Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#13. Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
Wendell Berry
#14. So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them.
Anthony Liccione
#15. I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.
Tupac Shakur
#17. Don't wait for me," he whispers, and he kisses me again. "I don't want you to wait.
Robin York
#18. I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!
Ryan Hall
#19. When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it.
Sue Tompkins
#20. You should be able to have good matches against anybody.
Charlie Haas
#21. To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.
Rudolf Steiner
#22. Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.
Walter Moers
#23. The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#24. Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.
Auliq Ice
#25. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
Agatha Christie
#26. Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay
David Toop
#27. A mind once stretched by thoughts of heaven will never regain it's original shape (a shameless tweak of a quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author and physician)
Serenity McLean
#28. There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
Mike Johanns
#29. The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Oscar Wilde
#30. Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
Jodi Picoult
#31. No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.
Ashly Lorenzana
#33. Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.
Derek Parfit
#34. Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.
Abby Wambach
#35. A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.
Auliq Ice
#36. To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
Henri Matisse
#37. As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.
Henry David Thoreau
#38. I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.
Richard O'Brien
#39. When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
Agnes Martin
#40. If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.
Peter Falk
#41. Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.
Bankei Yotaku
#42. The inclination to share thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.If in pain I wish to let you know it,and ask your sympathy and assistance;and my pleasurable emotions also,I wish to communicate to,and share with you.
Abraham Lincoln
#43. If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
Brad Bird
