Quotes on Original Thought

Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

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