Imitation Quotes

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Experience, Wisdom, May

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mahatma Gandhi

Flattery, Sincerest

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton

Flattery, Sincerest

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature, Truth, Art

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

Nature, Art, Through

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Art, Respect

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West

Real, Lady, Model

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire

Nothing, Another, Writers

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.
Brian Molko

Yourself, Wrong, Proud

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

Strength, Weak, Rudeness

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius

Best, Revenge, Refrain

All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson

Cannot, Almost, Conduct

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

True, Nothing, False

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth, Everything, Copy

No man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Mason Cooley

Art, Innovation, Begins

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana

Fashion, Reason, Innovation

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Aesop

Men, Real, Often

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift

Men, Children, Fighting

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Theodor Adorno

Human, Imitating, Becomes

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Judith Butler

Original, Gender, Drag

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen

Television, Sincerest

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

Nature, Great, Poetry

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
Lena Horne

Woman, Become, Else

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Opposite, Namely

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers

May, Listening, Flattery

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.
John Mayer

Person, Words, Talking

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