Imitation Quotes - Page 10

• The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Travel, Home

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.278, Library of America

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• It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.

  Maude Royden

  Science, Garden, Eden

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• The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Sight, Rome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.

  Max Lucado

  Real, Giving, Surrender

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Love Worth Giving Deluxe Edition: Living in the Overflow of God's Love”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Insult, Form

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no
  true demonstrations.

  Blaise Pascal

  World, Erring, Guides

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.512

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• Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1505, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Example, Doe

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• My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reading, Heaven, Desire

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• The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

  Richard Lovelace

  Animal, Goal, Religion

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• Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Color, Long

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
  [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Offering, Rewards, Virtue

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• Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Animal, Reason

  Samuel Johnson (1841). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: the vanity of human wished: The History of Solÿman and Almena by John Langhorne”, p.41

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• The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.

  Rene Huyghe

  Reality, Use, Lines

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• In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.

  Ivor Grattan-Guinness

  Educational, Teaching, Law

  "The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences". Book by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, p. 739, 2000.

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• To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. Its more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

  Bat for Lashes

  Artist, Unique, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.

  Pink

  Thinking, Flattery, Annoying

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• True art is reverent imitation of God.

  Tryon Edwards

  Art, Art Is

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.97, Ravenio Books

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• My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.

  Lil' Mama

  Cutting, Who I Am, The End Of The Day

  "Lil Mama On Her Style Evolution; Nicki Minaj & Being A Curse-Free Rapper". Interview with Tray Hova, www.vibe.com. June 15, 2011.

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• In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Doubt, Advantage

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “Cicero on Oratory and Orators: With His Letters to Quintus and Brutus”, p.396, London, George Bell & sons

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• My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Errors, Natural

  Michel de Montaigne (1980). “Essays”

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• All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of varietyis but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Real, Flower

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• We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.

  Clare of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Mean

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• Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.

  Bill Watterson

  Taken, Artist, Talking

  Source: mentalfloss.com

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