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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. -- H. L. Mencken
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -- Abraham Lincoln
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings -- Diogenes
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight. -- Pat Condell
An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture. -- Christopher Moore
Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought. -- Bob Saget
I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought. -- Ne-Yo
People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought. -- Jacqueline Bisset
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. -- Johan Huizinga
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. -- Fran Lebowitz
We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. -- Shirley Temple
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. -- Barbara Tuchman
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
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
One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought. -- Jacob Bronowski
Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought. -- Melissa Etheridge
Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s. -- Andrea Tantaros
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious. -- Alan Garner
Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down. -- Arnold Gingrich
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
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
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art. -- Jacob Bronowski
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. -- H. L. Mencken
Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. -- Edward Bernays
I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my biggest buzz. Because then it makes me feel like I know why I was born. Reaching original thought, where I know that I'm perceiving something that only I have seen, and I need to incarnate that. That's it right there. -- Caroline Myss
War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service -- Smedley Butler
If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now. -- Bob Dylan
We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought -- Shirley Temple
The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason. -- David Ogilvy
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
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought! -- Charles M. Schulz
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
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 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
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been -- Bryce Courtenay
When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern of thought. When an emotion is tied to this thought pattern, the memory trace grows exponentially stronger. -- Lysa TerKeurst
One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes. -- Banksy
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic. -- Salman Rushdie
I thought that I'd always just do Broadway, my original plan, but that was derailed. -- Toni Trucks
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. -- Vittorio Alfieri
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. -- Claude M. Bristol
I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths. -- William Boyd
King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part. -- Michael Douglas
I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing. -- Arthur Phillips
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
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 Scheuring
I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't know who could be who! I just don't see it going in that direction. I can see the original cast doing the movie very easily though. -- Erin Moran
Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves. -- Byron Katie
The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89 -- John Carroll
I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. -- John Lennon
I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997. -- George Lucas
I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had. -- Diana Rigg
I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied]. -- Steven Knight
Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.) -- Jean Rhys
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it. -- Dalai Lama
Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along. -- Tim Conway
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought. -- Albert Pinkham Ryder

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