“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 469
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“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
Interview with Susan Goodman, Modern Maturity (March/April 1998) http://www.paulrossen.com/paulinekael/modernmaturity.html.
Interviews
“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”
Vol. I; CCXVII
Lacon (1820)
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”
Attributed in Newsweek, 14 January 1980.
“They say survival is Nature’s only form of flattery.”
Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 26 (p. 512)
In Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,
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“To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.”
D 96
Variant translation: To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)