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7. “The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.”
Michel de Montaigne
Creativity, Originality, Inspiration, Transformation, Intellectual Property
8. “On account of its originality, excellence in every field strikes us as so new and so strange, that to recognize it at first glance will require not only understanding, but also education in the same discipline. As a rule, excellence achieves late recognition, all the later as the discipline is loftier, and those who truly enlighten humankind share the fate of the fixed stars, the light from which requires many years before it descends to the horizon.” Arthur Schopenhauer Excellence, Originality, Recognition, Education, Creativity
10. “The characteristic mark of minds of the first rank is the immediacy of all their judgments. Everything they produce is the result of thinking for themselves and already in the way it is spoken everywhere announces itself as such.” Arthur Schopenhauer Intellect, Judgment, Originality, Authenticity, Intellectual Clarity
11. “We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.” Arthur Schopenhauer Thinkers, Originality, Independence, Influence, Human Thought
13. “The result is that much reading robs the mind of all elasticity, as the continual pressure of a weight does a spring, and that the surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pick up a book every time you have a free moment. The practice of doing this is the reason erudition makes most men duller and sillier than they are by nature and robs their writings of all effectiveness: they are in Pope’s words: For ever reading, never to be read.” Arthur Schopenhauer Reading, Knowledge, Originality, Intellectual Elasticity, Critical Thinking
19. “Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.” Arthur Conan Doyle Crime, Originality, Boredom, Detective Work, Societal Change
25. “It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.” William Butler Yeats Pen And Chisel, Passion’s Business, New Fashion, Creativity, Originality, Art
27. “It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).” Henry James Cosmopolitan, Paris, Originality, Community, Experience, Life
Originality Quotes by Famous Authors
7. “The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.”
Michel de Montaigne Creativity, Originality, Inspiration, Transformation, Intellectual Property
8. “On account of its originality, excellence in every field strikes us as so new and so strange, that to recognize it at first glance will require not only understanding, but also education in the same discipline. As a rule, excellence achieves late recognition, all the later as the discipline is loftier, and those who truly enlighten humankind share the fate of the fixed stars, the light from which requires many years before it descends to the horizon.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Excellence, Originality, Recognition, Education, Creativity
10. “The characteristic mark of minds of the first rank is the immediacy of all their judgments. Everything they produce is the result of thinking for themselves and already in the way it is spoken everywhere announces itself as such.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Intellect, Judgment, Originality, Authenticity, Intellectual Clarity
11. “We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Thinkers, Originality, Independence, Influence, Human Thought
13. “The result is that much reading robs the mind of all elasticity, as the continual pressure of a weight does a spring, and that the surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pick up a book every time you have a free moment. The practice of doing this is the reason erudition makes most men duller and sillier than they are by nature and robs their writings of all effectiveness: they are in Pope’s words: For ever reading, never to be read.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Reading, Knowledge, Originality, Intellectual Elasticity, Critical Thinking
19. “Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Crime, Originality, Boredom, Detective Work, Societal Change
25. “It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.”
William Butler Yeats Pen And Chisel, Passion’s Business, New Fashion, Creativity, Originality, Art
27. “It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).”
Henry James Cosmopolitan, Paris, Originality, Community, Experience, Life
