Imitation Quotes

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, fo...

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of a...

There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward...

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

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statisti...

A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have bee...

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

We do not imitate but are a model to others.

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else ...

Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to hi...

Imitation cannot go above its model.

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken bef...

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but...

Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never sa...

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it ...

A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Imitation is criticism.

To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, ine...

Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened half indifferent they behold the ghostly ...

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality a...

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set on the contrary he who imi...

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that ...