Quotes About Plagiarism

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.