Unoriginal Thought Quotes

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

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.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

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

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Hard to believe there was ever a world leader as dumb as Donald Trump. Can't spell, can't read, has never managed anything approaching an original thought. His brain is like a radio playing at top volume, but between stations.

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

I feel like a cliche.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

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

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.