quotes about Original Thought
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I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
-- Cormac McCarthy -
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
-- DiogenesSource : Attributed to Diogenes of Sinope in "Let a simile be your umbrella" by William Safire (p. 364), 2001.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers -
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
-- Fran LebowitzSource : FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jan 14, 2011
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My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought..
-- H. L. Mencken -
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
-- Johan Huizinga -
I had a date with a girl I called the parrot. All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!
-- Justin Chon -
I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
-- Ne-YoSource : "Singer-songwriter Ne-Yo". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 16, 2011.
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Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.
-- Pat Condell -
Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.
-- Paul ScheuringSource : Source: collider.com
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I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.
-- Shepard Fairey -
We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought
-- Shirley Temple -
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...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making of Sciences; for whoever has fix'd on his Cause, before he experimented; can hardly avoid fitting his Experiment to his Observations, to his own Cause, which he had before imagin'd; rather than the Cause to the Truth of the Experiment itself. Referring to experiments of the Aristotelian mode, whereby a preconceived truth would be illustrated merely to convince people of the validity of the original thought.
-- Thomas SpratSource : "The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge".
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
-- Vittorio Alfieri