Original Thoughts Quotes

“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.”
― Henri Matisse

“The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“It is a theory of mine," I said, warming to my theme, "that we owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness―either enforced or voluntary. 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, The Moving Finger

“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, This Side of Paradise

“I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.”
― Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

“A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“I don't need to always quote others because I actually have original thoughts".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

“The only original thoughts are the intelligent ones nobody understands.”
― Yecenia Nevarez-Aragon

“Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Without even trying to be a teacher,
Fredrika is teaching us,
Showing us how to see things in new ways
Instead of always thinking
The same old thoughts
That have been passed along by strangers
Day after day, year after year
Without any spirit of amazement
Or wonder,”
― Margarita Engle, The Firefly Letters

“There can be no progress, if there is no original thinking. And there can be no original thinking, if you stick strictly to the known.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“In a world that rewards
second-hand existence,
Stand alone and original,
as a first-hand sapiens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat