
“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
Attributed in Newsweek, 14 January 1980.
“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
“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)
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
“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)
“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”
Meditations. xi. 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)