True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.        —Edith Wharton

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

    —Barbara Grizzuli Harrison

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.   —Josh Billings

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

                     —Franklin P. Jones

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

                                —Leo Tolstoy

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.  —Eric Hoffer

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.                                                         

                             —Jean Guitton

Originality is a thing we constantly clamor for, and constantly quarrel with.

                        —Thomas Carlyle

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.          —Lawrence J. Peter

Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

                        —Thomas Merton

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.          —John Shedd

The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

          —W. Somerset Maugham