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  • A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf
  • 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!

  • 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.

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

    Science   Race   Ideas  
    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf
  • 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!

    Lying   Dark   Boys  
  • 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.

    Art   Science   Discovery  
    "Science and Human Values". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1956.
  • The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

  • I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

    Atheist   Work   Thinking  
    Have His Carcase ch. 4 (1932)
  • If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

  • I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

    "Singer-songwriter Ne-Yo". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 16, 2011.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Men   Thinking   Average  
    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf
  • A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

    "Gaudy Night". Book by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1936.
  • It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

    My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)
  • 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

  • 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

    Military   War   Order  
  • They have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the cause, till the trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making of Sciences: for whoever has fix'd on his Cause, before he has experimented; can hardly avoid fitting his Experiment, and his Observations, to his Own Cause, which he had before imagin'd; rather than the Cause to the Truth of the Experiment itself. Referring to experiments of the Aristotelian mode, whereby a preconceived truth would be illustrated merely to convince people of the validity of the original thought.

    Truth   Science   Past  
    "The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge".
  • 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.

    Art   Truth   Creativity  
    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.12, Harper Collins
  • 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.

    Writing   Data   Mind  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Peace   Military   War  
    "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.
  • There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.

    James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
  • I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.

  • Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.

    Gossip   People   Rumor  
    Twitter post from Nov 02, 2012
  • Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

  • The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  • An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

    Funny   Witty   Book  
    Stephen Fry (2010). “The Liar”, p.54, Random House
  • Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

    Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy
  • Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

    "In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 2, 1936.
  • Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

    "Readers recommend: songs that sample, recycle and reinvent" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2014.
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