Quotes about Plagiarism
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.
— John Milton
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
— Albert Einstein
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
— Albert Einstein
The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The Mormon Bible is rather stupid and tiresome to read, but there is nothing vicious in its teachings. Its code of morals is unobjectionable- -it is smouched [Milton] from the New Testament and no credit given.
— Mark Twain
Art is theft.
— Pablo Picasso
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
— Charles Spurgeon
Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
— Abraham Kuyper
All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.
— Mark Twain
the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes! Remember why the good Lord made your eyes! So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize - Only be sure always to call it please 'research'." [ Lobachevsky ]
— Tom Lehrer
People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.
— Butch Trucks