What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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

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

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think read more

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.