Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Originality

Quotes about: Originality

• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Insightful, Novelty

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny Basketball, Originality, Clamour

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Views, Firsts, Faults

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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