Wisdom Through People

Quotes by Persons

Browse quotations by writers, philosophers, scientists, artists and historical figures, arranged in alphabetical order.

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Homer

Read quotes -780 - -705

Hesiod

Read quotes -640 - -568

Pittacus

Read quotes -639 - -559

Solon

Read quotes -630 - -570

Sappho

Read quotes -625 - -560

Aeshop

Read quotes -624 - -546

Thales

Read quotes -575 - -500

Laozi

Read quotes -570 - -500

Pythagoras

Read quotes -563 - -483

Buddha

Read quotes -551 - -479

Confucius

Read quotes -540 - -480

Heraclitus

Read quotes -525 - -456

Aeschylus

Read quotes -520 - -448

Pindar

Read quotes -496 - -406

Sophocles

Read quotes -495 - -429

Pericles

Read quotes -470 - -399

Socrates

Read quotes -460 - -377

Hippocrates

Read quotes -460 - -360

Democritus

Life: 100 years

Read quotes -460 - -398

Thucydides

Read quotes -452 - -385

Aristophanes

Read quotes -436 - -338

Isokratis

Read quotes -431 - -3561

Xenophon

Life: -3130 years

Read quotes -427 - -347

Plato

Read quotes -412 - -323

Diogenes

Read quotes -384 - -322

Aristotles

Read quotes -384 - -322

Demosthenes

Read quotes -356 - -323

Alexander the Great

Read quotes -342 - -292

Menander

Read quotes -341 - -270

Epicurus

Read quotes -276 - -194

Eratosthenes

Read quotes -106 - -43

Cicero

Read quotes -100 - -44

Caesar

Read quotes -65 - -8

Horace

Read quotes -43 - 18

Ovid

Read quotes -4 - 65

Seneca

Read quotes 0 - 33

Jesus

Read quotes 23 - 79

Gaius Plinius

Read quotes 23 - 79

Pliny the Elder

Read quotes 45 - 120

Plutarch

Read quotes 50 - 138

Epictetus

Read quotes 120 - 190

Lucian

Read quotes 121 - 180

Aurelius Marcus

Read quotes 204 - 270

Plotinus

Read quotes 370 - 416

Hypatia

Read quotes 380 - 450

Kalidasa

Read quotes 505 - 578

Hatim

Read quotes 701 - 762

Bai Li

Read quotes 712 - 770

Fu Du

Read quotes 1048 - 1131

Khayyam Omar

Read quotes 1207 - 1273

Rumi Jalaluddin

Read quotes 1210 - 1292

Saadi

Read quotes 1225 - 1274

Aquinas Thomas

Read quotes 1265 - 1321

Dante

Read quotes 1304 - 1374

Petrarca

Read quotes 1313 - 1375

Boccaccio

Read quotes 1317 - 1392

Hafez

Read quotes 1402 - 1475

Bauniyya Aisha

Read quotes 1452 - 1519

Leonardo da Vinci

Read quotes 1469 - 1539

Nanak Guru

Read quotes 1469 - 1527

Machiavelli

Read quotes 1483 - 1546

Luther

Read quotes 1533 - 1592

Montaigne

Read quotes 1547 - 1616

Cervantes

Read quotes 1548 - 1600

Bruno Giordano

Read quotes 1553 - 1614

Kornaros

Read quotes 1561 - 1626

Bacon Francis

Read quotes 1564 - 1616

Shakespeare

Read quotes 1564 - 1642

Galilei Galileo

Read quotes 1571 - 1630

Kepler

Read quotes 1585 - 1642

Richelieu

Read quotes 1588 - 1697

Hobbes

Life: 109 years

Read quotes 1600 - 1681

Calderon

Read quotes 1601 - 1658

Gracian

Read quotes 1608 - 1674

Milton John

Read quotes 1613 - 1680

Rochefoucauld

Read quotes 1622 - 1673

Moliere

Read quotes 1623 - 1662

Pascal

Read quotes 1632 - 1704

Locke John

Read quotes 1632 - 1677

Spinoza

Read quotes 1639 - 1699

Racine

Read quotes 1642 - 1726

Newton Isaac

Read quotes 1644 - 1694

Basho Matsuo

Read quotes 1667 - 1745

Swift Jonathan

Read quotes 1688 - 1744

Pope, Alexander

Read quotes 1689 - 1755

Montesquieu

Read quotes 1694 - 1778

Voltaire

Read quotes 1706 - 1790

Franklin Benjamin

Read quotes 1709 - 1784

Johnson Samuel

Read quotes 1712 - 1778

Rousseau

Read quotes 1713 - 1784

Diderot

Read quotes 1723 - 0

Smith Adam

Read quotes 1724 - 1804

Kant Immanuel

Read quotes 1732 - 1799

Washington George

Read quotes 1737 - 1809

Paine Thomas

Read quotes 1740 - 1814

Sade,Marquis de

Read quotes 1749 - 1832

Goethe

Read quotes 1754 - 1838

Talleyrand

Read quotes 1757 - 1827

Blake William

Read quotes 1758 - 1794

Robespierre

Read quotes 1759 - 1796

Burns Robert

Read quotes 1759 - 1805

Schiller

Read quotes 1759 - 1797

Wollstonecraft

Read quotes 1763 - 1827

Issa Kobayashi

Read quotes 1768 - 1848

Chateaubriand

Read quotes 1769 - 1821

Napoleon

Read quotes 1772 - 1837

Fourier Charles

Read quotes 1772 - 1801

Novalis

Read quotes 1775 - 1817

Austen Jane

Read quotes 1778 - 1827

Foscolo,

Read quotes 1783 - 1842

Stendhal

Read quotes 1786 - 1855

Phu Sunthorn

Read quotes 1786 - 1855

Nizami

Read quotes 1788 - 1824

Byron George

Read quotes 1788 - 1860

Schopenhauer

Read quotes 1790 - 1869

Lamartine

Read quotes 1792 - 1822

Shelley Percy

Read quotes 1795 - 1821

Keats John

Read quotes 1797 - 1851

Shelley Mary

Read quotes 1797 - 1856

Heine Heinrich

Read quotes 1799 - 1837

Pushkin

Read quotes 1799 - 1850

Balzac

Read quotes 1802 - 1885

Hugo Victor

Read quotes 1802 - 1870

Dumas Alexandre

Read quotes 1803 - 1873

Tyutchev Fyodor

Read quotes 1804 - 1872

Feuerbach

Read quotes 1804 - 1864

Hawthorne Nathaniel

Read quotes 1809 - 1865

Proudhon

Read quotes 1809 - 1882

Darwin

Read quotes 1809 - 1849

Poe, Edgar A.

Read quotes 1809 - 1852

Gogol Nikolai

Read quotes 1809 - 1892

Tennyson

Read quotes 1810 - 1857

Musset Alfred

Read quotes 1811 - 1863

Thackeray William

Read quotes 1812 - 1870

Dickens

Read quotes 1813 - 1851

Petrovic-Njegos

Read quotes 1813 - 1855

Kierkegaard

Read quotes 1814 - 1868

Acharya Bhanu

Read quotes 1814 - 1861

Shevchenko

Read quotes 1814 - 1876

Bakunin Mikhail

Read quotes 1815 - 1898

Otto von Bismarck

Read quotes 1817 - 1862

Thoreau Henry

Read quotes 1818 - 1883

Marx Karl

Read quotes 1819 - 1892

Whitman Walt

Read quotes 1819 - 1891

Melville Herman

Read quotes 1819 - 1877

Courbet Gustave

Read quotes 1819 - 1880

Eliot George

Read quotes 1821 - 1867

Baudelaire

Read quotes 1821 - 1881

Dostoevsky

Read quotes 1821 - 1880

Flaubert

Read quotes 1828 - 1905

Verne Jules

Read quotes 1828 - 1910

Tolstoy Leo

Read quotes 1828 - 1906

Ibsen

Read quotes 1830 - 1894

Rossetti Christina

Read quotes 1830 - 1886

Dickinson Emily

Read quotes 1835 - 1910

Twain Mark

Read quotes 1840 - 1902

Zola Emile

Read quotes 1840 - 1924

Ullman Samuel

Read quotes 1842 - 1921

Kropotkin

Read quotes 1842 - 1910

James William

Read quotes 1844 - 1900

Nietzsche

Read quotes 1844 - 1924

France Anatole

Read quotes 1844 - 1896

Verlaine Paul

Read quotes 1845 - 1904

Kunanbaev

Read quotes 1846 - 1870

Lautreamont

Read quotes 1847 - 1922

Bell Graham

Read quotes 1849 - 1912

Strindberg

Read quotes 1850 - 1889

Eminescu

Read quotes 1850 - 1904

Hearn Patrick

Read quotes 1850 - 1893

Maupassant

Read quotes 1853 - 1932

Malatesta

Read quotes 1853 - 1902

Martí Jose

Read quotes 1854 - 1928

Zamudio Adela

Read quotes 1854 - 1891

Rimbaud

Read quotes 1854 - 1900

Wilde Oscar

Read quotes 1856 - 1943

Tesla

Read quotes 1856 - 1950

Shaw Bernard

Read quotes 1856 - 1939

Freud Sigmund

Read quotes 1857 - 1924

Conrad Joseph

Read quotes 1859 - 1943

Palamas Kostis

Read quotes 1859 - 1941

Bergson Henri

Read quotes 1860 - 1904

Chekhov Anton

Read quotes 1861 - 1896

Rizal Jose

Read quotes 1861 - 1941

Tagore

Read quotes 1863 - 1933

Cavafy

Read quotes 1863 - 1936

Zahawi

Read quotes 1864 - 1936

Unamuno

Read quotes 1864 - 1901

Toulouse

Read quotes 1865 - 1936

Kipling

Read quotes 1865 - 1939

Yeats W. B.

Read quotes 1866 - 1944

Rolland

Read quotes 1866 - 1936

Sullivan Anne

Read quotes 1867 - 1916

Dario Ruben

Read quotes 1867 - 1934

Curie Marie

Read quotes 1868 - 1950

Masters, E.L.

Read quotes 1868 - 1936

Gorky Maxim

Read quotes 1868 - 1912

Scott Robert

Read quotes 1869 - 1948

Gandhi

Read quotes 1869 - 1940

Goldman Emma

Read quotes 1870 - 1924

Lenin

Read quotes 1870 - 1937

Adler Alfred

Read quotes 1870 - 1952

Montessori

Read quotes 1870 - 1932

Shawqiν Ahmed

Read quotes 1871 - 1919

Luxemburg Rosa

Read quotes 1871 - 1945

Paul Valery

Read quotes 1871 - 1945

Valery Paul

Read quotes 1871 - 1922

Proust Marcel

Read quotes 1872 - 1970

Russell Bertrand

Read quotes 1874 - 1965

Maugham Somerset

Read quotes 1874 - 1963

Frost Robert

Read quotes 1875 - 1961

Jung Carl

Read quotes 1875 - 1965

Schweitzer

Read quotes 1875 - 1955

Mann Thomas

Read quotes 1875 - 1939

Machado Antonio

Read quotes 1875 - 1926

Rilke

Read quotes 1876 - 1916

London Jack

Read quotes 1877 - 1938

Iqbal Muhammad

Read quotes 1877 - 1938

Hazoume Paul

Read quotes 1877 - 1938

Gebre-Medhin

Read quotes 1877 - 1962

Hesse Hermann

Read quotes 1878 - 1967

Sandburg Carl

Read quotes 1878 - 1968

Sinclair Upton

Read quotes 1878 - 1926

Leino Eino

Read quotes 1878 - 1945

Tekeyan Vahan

Read quotes 1879 - 1955

Einstein

Read quotes 1879 - 1949

Naidu Sarojini

Read quotes 1879 - 1940

Trotsky Leon

Read quotes 1880 - 1918

Apollinaire

Read quotes 1881 - 1958

Jimenez Juan

Read quotes 1881 - 1942

Zweig Stefan

Read quotes 1882 - 1941

Woolf Virginia

Read quotes 1882 - 1941

Joyce James

Read quotes 1883 - 1957

Kazantzakis

Read quotes 1883 - 1971

Chanel

Read quotes 1883 - 1931

Gibran Khalil

Read quotes 1883 - 1924

Kafka Franz

Read quotes 1883 - 1980

Under Marie

Read quotes 1884 - 1935

Istrati Panait

Read quotes 1885 - 1981

Will Durant

Read quotes 1885 - 1962

Blixen Karen

Read quotes 1885 - 1981

Durant Will

Read quotes 1885 - 1968

Porchia Antonio

Read quotes 1885 - 1930

Lawrence

Read quotes 1885 - 1972

Pound Ezra

Read quotes 1885 - 1951

Lewis Sinclair

Read quotes 1888 - 1935

Pessoa

Read quotes 1888 - 1965

Eliot Thomas

Read quotes 1889 - 1948

McKay Claude

Read quotes 1889 - 1966

Akhmatova

Read quotes 1889 - 1957

Mistral Gabriela

Read quotes 1889 - 1951

Wittgenstein L.

Read quotes 1889 - 1976

Heidegger Martin

Read quotes 1890 - 1930

Mayakovsky

Read quotes 1890 - 1930

Sucre Ramos

Read quotes 1890 - 1960

Pasternak Boris

Read quotes 1891 - 1980

Miller Henry

Read quotes 1891 - 1937

Gramsci

Read quotes 1891 - 1974

Lagerkvist Per

Read quotes 1892 - 1973

Buck Pearl

Read quotes 1892 - 1950

Milley Edna

Read quotes 1892 - 1937

Javad Ahmad

Read quotes 1892 - 1959

Tabidze Galaktion

Read quotes 1892 - 1938

Vallejo Cesar

Read quotes 1893 - 1967

Parker Dorothy

Read quotes 1894 - 1962

cummings

Read quotes 1895 - 1925

Yesenin Sergei

Read quotes 1895 - 1973

Horkheimer Max

Read quotes 1895 - 1952

Eluard Paul

Read quotes 1895 - 1986

Krishnamurti

Read quotes 1896 - 1980

Piaget Jean

Read quotes 1896 - 1940

Fitzgerald

Read quotes 1896 - 1966

Breton Andre

Read quotes 1896 - 1948

Hye-sok Na

Read quotes 1897 - 1962

Bataille

Read quotes 1897 - 1962

Faulkner

Read quotes 1897 - 1957

Reich Wilhelm

Read quotes 1897 - 1975

Wilder Thornton

Read quotes 1898 - 1956

Brecht

Read quotes 1898 - 1979

Marcuse Herbert

Read quotes 1898 - 1936

Lorca

Read quotes 1898 - 1948

Eisenstein

Read quotes 1899 - 1977

Nabokov

Read quotes 1899 - 1974

Asturias Miguel

Read quotes 1899 - 1961

Hemingway

Read quotes 1899 - 1986

Borges

Read quotes 1899 - 1970

Remarque

Read quotes 1899 - 1984

Michaux Henri

Read quotes 1899 - 1972

Kawabata

Read quotes 1899 - 1976

Nazrul

Read quotes 1900 - 1980

Fromm Erich

Read quotes 1900 - 1935

Crevel Rene

Read quotes 1900 - 1977

Prevert Jacques

Read quotes 1900 - 1944

Exupery

Read quotes 1901 - 1937

Rabearivelo

Read quotes 1901 - 1968

Quasimodo

Read quotes 1901 - 1967

Hughes Langston

Read quotes 1901 - 1964

Meireles Cecilia

Read quotes 1901 - 1976

Malraux Andre

Read quotes 1901 - 1965

Disney Walt

Read quotes 1902 - 1987

Rogers Carl

Read quotes 1902 - 1994

Popper Karl

Read quotes 1902 - 1968

Steinbeck John

Read quotes 1902 - 1963

Hikmet Nazim

Read quotes 1902 - 1934

Sowol Kim

Read quotes 1902 - 1991

Suarez Clementina

Read quotes 1903 - 1976

Queneau Raymond

Read quotes 1903 - 1950

Orwell George

Read quotes 1903 - 1977

Nin Anais

Read quotes 1903 - 1987

Yourcenar

Read quotes 1904 - 1990

Skinner

Read quotes 1904 - 1973

Neruda Pablo

Read quotes 1904 - 1926

Kosovel Srecko

Read quotes 1905 - 1997

Frankl Viktor

Read quotes 1905 - 1980

Sartre

Read quotes 1905 - 1983

Koestler Arthur

Read quotes 1905 - 1953

Cervera Campos

Read quotes 1906 - 1989

Beckett

Read quotes 1906 - 2001

Senghor Leopold

Read quotes 1906 - 1937

Natsagdorj

Read quotes 1908

Fleming Ian

Read quotes 1908 - 1986

Beauvoir Simone de

Read quotes 1908 - 2009

Levi-Strauss

Life: 101 years

Read quotes 1909 - 1994

Ionesco

Read quotes 1909 - 1943

Weil Simone

Read quotes 1909 - 1962

Shaaban

Read quotes 1909 - 1983

Roy Gabrielle

Read quotes 1910 - 1986

Genet Jean

Read quotes 1910 - 2008

Sendler Irena

Read quotes 1910 - 1975

Kavvadias

Read quotes 1911 - 1979

Bishop Elizabeth

Read quotes 1911 - 1996

Elytis

Read quotes 1911 - 1984

Faiz Ahmad

Read quotes 1911 - 1983

Williams Tennessee

Read quotes 1912 - 2009

Naes Arne

Read quotes 1913 - 1969

Camus Albert

Read quotes 1913 - 2010

Romilly Jacqueline

Read quotes 1914 - 1953

Thomas Dylan

Read quotes 1914 - 1998

Paz Octavio

Read quotes 1914 - 1997

Burroughs W.

Read quotes 1915 - 1995

Nesin Aziz

Read quotes 1916 - 1988

Satir Virginia

Read quotes 1916 - 2019

Dadie Bernard

Life: 103 years

Read quotes 1917 - 2008

Clarke Arthur

Read quotes 1917 - 1985

Bell Heinrich

Read quotes 1918 - 2013

Mandela Nelson

Read quotes 1919 - 1987

Levi Primo

Read quotes 1919 - 2013

Lessing Doris

Read quotes 1920 - 1976

Bukowski Charles

Read quotes 1920 - 1993

Noonuccal

Read quotes 1920 - 1992

Asimov Isaac

Read quotes 1920 - 2009

Benedetti Mario

Read quotes 1920 - 1959

Vian Boris

Read quotes 1921 - 2006

Lem Stanislaw

Read quotes 1921 - 1997

Freire Paulo

Read quotes 1922 - 2007

Vonnegut

Read quotes 1922 - 1949

Anwar Chairil

Read quotes 1922 - 2010

Saramago

Read quotes 1922 - 1969

Kerouac Jack

Read quotes 1922 - 2003

Craveirinha Jose

Read quotes 1923 - 1985

Calvino

Read quotes 1923 - 2007

Mailer Norman

Read quotes 1923 - 2014

Gordimer Nadine

Read quotes 1923 - 1964

Behan Brendan

Read quotes 1924 - 1984

Capote Truman

Read quotes 1924 - 1973

Cabral Amílcar

Read quotes 1925 - 1970

Mishima Yukio

Read quotes 1925 - 1961

Lumumba Patrice

Read quotes 1925 - 1961

Silveira Onesimo

Read quotes 1926 - 2011

Baba Sathya

Read quotes 1926 - 0

Depestre Rene

Read quotes 1926 - 2016

Castro Fidel

Read quotes 1926 - 1997

Ginsberg Allen

Read quotes 1927 - 2014

Marquez Gabriel

Read quotes 1928 - 1967

Che Guevara

Read quotes 1928 - 2014

Angelou Maya

Read quotes 1928 - 1990

Andrade Pinto

Read quotes 1928 - 2012

Fuentes Carlos

Read quotes 1928 - 2008

Aitmatov

Read quotes 1929 - 1968

King, Martin L.

Read quotes 1929 - 1976

Mahagame Sekara

Read quotes 1929 - 1945

Frank Anne

Read quotes 1930 - 2017

Walcott Derek

Read quotes 1930 - 1988

Hughes Ted

Read quotes 1930 - 2018

Rubadiri

Read quotes 1930 - 2013

Achebe Chinua

Read quotes 1931 - 2021

Saadawi

Read quotes 1931 - 1982

P_Bitek Okot

Read quotes 1932 - 2016

Eco Umberto

Read quotes 1932 - 2009

Updike John

Read quotes 1932 - 1963

Plath Sylvia

Read quotes 1932 - 1973

Jara Victor

Read quotes 1932 - 2002

Sihab Hamam

Read quotes 1933 - 0

Thumboo Edwin

Read quotes 1933 - 2007

Moe Tin

Read quotes 1936 - 2010

Seng Goh-Poh

Read quotes 1938 - 2009

Konie Gwendoline

Read quotes 1939 - 2018

Oz Amos

Read quotes 1940 - 2009

Bausch

Read quotes 1940 - 2015

Galeano

Read quotes 1940 - 2015

Mernissi Fatima

Read quotes 1941 - 0

Rajendra

Read quotes 1941 - 2008

Darwish Maḥmoud

Read quotes 1942 - 2018

Hawking

Read quotes 1968 - 0

Phuntsho Karma