Wisdom Quotes
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Quotes by Author

Authors listed alphabetically by first letter of their published name; only authors with multiple quotes are listed here.

A. A. Milne | A. E. Housman | A. Eustace Haydon | A. J. Foyt | A. J. Muste | A. Phillip Randolph | A. Powell Davies | Abigail Van Buren | Abraham Joshua Heschel | Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Maslow | Adlai Stevenson | Adrienne Rich | Aeschylus | African proverb | Agatha Christie | Agnes Repplier | Al Gore | Alan Alda | Alan Cohen | Alan Watts | Albert Camus | Albert Einstein | Albert Schweitzer | Aldous Huxley | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Alexander Pope | Alexis Carrel | Alexis de Tocqueville | Alfred Adler | Alfred North Whitehead | Alfred Tennyson | Algernon Black | Alice Duer Miller | Alice Miller | Alice Walker | Alvin Toffler | Amartya Sen | Ambrose Bierce | Amelia Earhart | Amos Bronson Alcott | Amy Bloom | Amy Lowell | Amy Tan | Anais Nin | Anatole France | Andre Gide | Andrew Carnegie | Ann Landers | Ann Richards | Anna Garlin Spencer | Anna Quindlen | Anne Bradstreet | Anne Frank | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Anne Sexton | Anne Sullivan | Anne Wilson Schaef | Annie Dillard | Anthony J. D'Angelo | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | Anton Chekhov | Antonio Gramsci | Archibald Macleish | Ariel and Will Durant | Aristotle | Arnold Toynbee | Arthur Ashe | Arthur Conan Doyle | Arthur Dobrin | Arthur Rubinstein | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur Schopenhauer | Ashley Montagu | Audre Lorde | Ayn Rand

Barack Obama | Barbara De Angelis | Barbara Ehrenreich | Barbara Jordan | Barbara Kingsolver | Barbara Tuchman | Barry Goldwater | Baruch Spinoza | Beatrix Potter | bell hooks | Bella Abzug | Ben Jonson | Benjamin Disraeli | Benjamin Franklin | Bernice Johnson Reagon | Bertrand Russell | Bessie Stanley | Betty Friedan | Betty Williams | Bible | Bill Clinton | Bill Cosby | Bill Gates | Bill Vaughan | Bishop Desmond Tutu | Blaise Pascal | Bo Lozoff | Bob Dylan | Bonaro W. Overstreet | Booker T. Washington | Brian Tracy | Buckminster Fuller | Buddha | Byron Katie

C. S. Lewis | Carl Jung | Carl Rogers | Carl Sagan | Carl Sandburg | Carl Schurz | Carol P. Christ | Carolyn Wells | Carrie Chapman Catt | Cesar Chavez | Charles Dickens | Charles Krauthammer | Charlie Brower | Charlotte Bronte | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Charlotte Whitton | Chinese Proverb | Christina Rossetti | Christopher Hitchens | Christopher Lasch | Christopher Morley | Christopher Reeve | Cicero | Clare Boothe Luce | Clarence Darrow | Coco Chanel | Colette | Colleen C. Barrett | Colman McCarthy | Confucius | Corita Kent | Corliss Lamont | Cornelia Otis Skinner

D. H. Lawrence | Dag Hammarskjold | Dale Carnegie | Dale Evans | Dan Quayle | Daniel Goleman | Daniel J. Boorstin | Daniel Webster | Dave Barry | David Bohm | David Hume | David Ogilvy | David Steindl-Rast | Deborah Tannen | Demosthenes | Denis Diderot | Denis Waitley | Denise Levertov | Dick Gregory | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Dom Helder Camara | Don Marquis | Dorothy Parker | Dorothy Thompson | Doug Larson | Douglas Adams | Douglas MacArthur | Dr. Seuss | Dwight D. Eisenhower

E. B. White | e. e. cummings | E. M. Forster | Edith Hamilton | Edith Wharton | Edmund Burke | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Edward Abbey | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Edward Ericson | Edward Everett Hale | Edward Gibbon | Edward Kennedy | Edward R. Murrow | Edward de Bono | Edwin H. Friedman | Edwin Markham | Elbert Hubbard | Eleanor Roosevelt | Elie Wiesel | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | Elizabeth Arden | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Elizabeth Dole | Elizabeth Drew | Elizabeth Gilbert | Elizabeth Kenny | Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Ellen Goodman | Emily Dickinson | Emma Goldman | Emma Thompson | Epictetus | Epicurus | Eric Hoffer | Erica Jong | Erich Fromm | Erich Maria Remarque | Erma Bombeck | Ernest Becker | Ernest Hemingway | Ethel Barrymore | Eudora Welty | Eugene McCarthy | Eugene V. Debs | Evelyn Underhill | Everett Dirksen | Ezra Pound

F. Scott Fitzgerald | Faith Baldwin | Fannie Lou Hamer | Faye Wattleton | Felix Adler | Finley Peter Dunne | Flannery O'Connor | Florida Scott-Maxwell | Florynce Kennedy | Forrest Church | Fran Leibowitz | Frances Fox Piven | Francis Bacon | Francis of Assisi | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Frank Lloyd Wright | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Franklin P. Jones | Frederick Buechner | Frederick Douglass | Friedrich Nietzsche | Friedrich von Schiller | Fritz Williams | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

G. K. Chesterton | Galileo Galilei | Garrison Keillor | Gay Hendricks | Georg C. Lichtenberg | George Bernard Shaw | George Burns | George Carlin | George Eliot | George H. W. Bush | George Jean Nathan | George MacDonald | George Matthew Adams | George Orwell | George Sand | George Santayana | George W. Bush | George Washington | George Washington Carver | George Will | Georgia O'Keeffe | Gerald Weinberg | Gerda Lerner | Germaine Greer | Gertrude Stein | Gloria Steinem | Gore Vidal | Groucho Marx | Gustave Flaubert

H. G. Wells | H. Jackson Brown Jr. | H. L. Mencken | Hafiz of Persia | Hamilton Wright Mabie | Hannah Arendt | Hannah More | Harold Kushner | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Tubman | Harrison Ford | Harry Emerson Fosdick | Harry S Truman | Havelock Ellis | Heinrich Heine | Helen Hayes | Helen Keller | Helen Rowland | Henri Bergson | Henri Nouwen | Henri-Frederic Amiel | Henrik Ibsen | Henry Brooks Adams | Henry David Thoreau | Henry Ford | Henry James | Henry Miller | Henry Reed | Henry Steele Commager | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Henry Ward Beecher | Heraclitus | Hermann Hesse | Heywood Broun | High Eagle | Horace Mann | Horace Rumpole | Hosea Ballou | Howard Dean | Howard Mumford Jones | Howard Zinn | Hubert H. Humphrey

Immanuel Kant | Ingrid Bergman | Isaac Asimov | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Isaac Newton | Izaak Walton

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | James Baldwin | James Freeman Clarke | James Kouzes and Barry Posner | James Luther Adams | James Madison | James Russell Lowell | James Thurber | Jane Addams | Jane Austen | Jane Elizabeth Auer | Jane Haddam | Jane Wagner | Jawaharlal Nehru | Jean Cocteau | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Jean Kerr | Jean de La Bruyere | Jean-Paul Sartre | Jerome Nathanson | Jessamyn West | Jesse Jackson | Jiddu Krishnamurti | Jim Hightower | Jimmy Carter | Joan Baez | Joan D. Vinge | Joan Didion | Joan Rivers | Joe Hill | Johann Kaspar Lavater | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | John Adams | John Barrymore | John Bright | John Burroughs | John C. Maxwell | John Cage | John Calvin | John D. Rockefeller | John Dewey | John Dietrich | John F. Kennedy | John Gardner | John Kenneth Galbraith | John Kerry | John L. Lewis | John Lennon | John Locke | John Lovejoy Elliott | John Milton | John Muir | John Naisbitt | John Quincy Adams | John Ruskin | John Steinbeck | John Stuart Mill | John W. Gardner | John Wesley | John Wooden | Jonas Salk | Jonathan Kozol | Jonathan Swift | Jone Johnson Lewis | Jose Ortega y Gasset | Joseph Campbell | Joseph Conrad | Joseph Heller | Josh Billings | Joyce Brothers | Joyce Carol Oates | Judy Collins | Jules Renard | Julia Child | Julia Ward Howe | Julian of Norwich

Kahlil Gibran | Karen Armstrong | Karl Marx | Karl Menninger | Katharine Hepburn | Katherine Mansfield | Kathleen Norris | Ken Venturi | Kenneth Patton | Kin Hubbard | Kurt Vonnegut

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu) | Laurence J. Peter | Leo Buscaglia | Leo C. Rosten | Leo Tolstoy | Leonardo da Vinci | Leontyne Price | Leroy (Satchel) Paige | Letty Cottin Pogrebin | Lillian Hellman | Lily Tomlin | Lin Yutang | Linus Pauling | Logan Pearsall Smith | Lord Acton | Lord Byron | Lorraine Hansberry | Louis D. Brandeis | Louis Pasteur | Louisa May Alcott | Lucille Ball | Lyndon B. Johnson

M. Scott Peck | Madame de Stael | Madeleine L'Engle | Magdalena Abakanowicz | Malcolm Forbes | Manuel Puig | Marcel Proust | Marcus Aurelius | Margaret Atwood | Margaret Bourke-White | Margaret Chase Smith | Margaret Fuller | Margaret J. Wheatley | Margaret Mead | Margaret Sanger | Margaret Thatcher | Marge Piercy | Maria Mitchell | Marian Wright Edelman | Marianne Williamson | Marie Curie | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | Marilyn Ferguson | Marilyn French | Marilyn Monroe | Mark Kurlansky | Mark Twain | Marlene Dietrich | Marlo Thomas | Marshall McLuhan | Marshall Rosenberg | Martha Nussbaum | Martin Buber | Martin Luther King, Jr. | Martin Niemoller | Mary Kay Ash | Mary Oliver | Mary Parker Follett | Mary Pettibone Poole | Mary Pickford | Mary Randolph | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mason Cooley | Matthew Arnold | Matthew Fox | May Sarton | Maya Angelou | Melody Beattie | Mia Hamm | Michael Jordan | Michael Korda | Michael Lerner | Michael Vance | Michel de Montaigne | Mignon McLaughlin | Miguel de Cervantes | Mohandas K. Gandhi | Moliere | Molleen Matsumura | Molly Ivins | Mortimer Adler | Mother Jones | Mother Teresa

Nancy Astor | Nancy Friday | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Nelson Mandela | Niccolo Machiavelli | Niels Bohr | Nietzsche | Noam Chomsky | Norbert Capek | Norman Cousins | Norman Thomas | Norman Vincent Peale

O. Henry | Ogden Nash | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Omar N. Bradley | Oprah Winfrey | Origen | Orison Swett Marden | Oscar Levant | Oscar Wilde | Otto von Bismarck | Ovid

P. J. O'Rourke | Pablo Picasso | Pamela Glenconner | Parker J. Palmer | Pat Robertson | Pat Schroeder | Patricia Neal | Patrick Henry | Paul Newman | Paul Ricoeur | Paul Tillich | Paul Valery | Paulo Freire | Peace Pilgrim | Pearl Bailey | Pearl S. Buck | Pema Chodron | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pete Seeger | Peter F. Drucker | Peter Senge | Peter Ustinov | Phyllis Diller | Phyllis McGinley | Plato

Quentin Crisp

Rabindranath Tagore | Rachel Carson | Rachel Naomi Remen | Rainer Maria Rilke | Ralph Ellison | Ralph W. Sockman | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Rebbe Nachman of Breslov | Rebecca West | Reinhold Niebuhr | Rene Descartes | Rene Dubos | Richard Aldington | Richard Bach | Richard Dawkins | Richard Rudd | Rita Mae Brown | Robert Burns | Robert Byrne | Robert C. Solomon | Robert F. Kennedy | Robert Frost | Robert Fulghum | Robert G. Ingersoll | Robert Greenleaf | Robert Heinlein | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert M. Hutchins | Robert Muller | Robert S. McElvaine | Robin Morgan | Roger Lewin | Rollo May | Ronald Reagan | Rosa Luxemburg | Rosa Parks | Rowan D. Williams | Rudyard Kipling | Rumi | Ruth Fulton Benedict

Saint Francis de Sales | Salman Rushdie | Sam Harris | Sam Keen | Sam Levenson | Sam Nunn | Sam Rayburn | Samuel Butler | Samuel Gompers | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Smiles | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sara Paretsky | Sara Teasdale | Sarah J. Hale | Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn | Saul Alinsky | Seneca | Sharon Salzberg | Sharon Welch | Shel Silverstein | Shirley Chisholm | Sidonie Gruenberg | Sigmund Freud | Simone Signoret | Simone Weil | Simone de Beauvoir | Sinclair Lewis | Sir Julian Huxley | Sir Walter Scott | Sojourner Truth | Solomon Short | Sophia Loren | Sophia Lyon Fahs | Sophocles | Soren Kierkegaard | Spanish proverb | Stephen Covey | Stephen Jay Gould | Stephen King | Stephen Vincent Benét | Steve Jobs | Susan B. Anthony | Susan Faludi | Susan Sontag | Sydney J. Harris

T. S. Eliot | Talmud | Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama | Theodor Adorno | Theodore Hesburgh | Theodore Parker | Theodore Roosevelt | Theodore Rubin | Thich Nhat Hanh | Thomas Alva Edison | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Fuller | Thomas H. Huxley | Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Mann | Thomas Merton | Thomas Moore | Thomas Paine | Thomas a Kempis | Thor Heyerdahl | Thornton Wilder | Toni Morrison | Tony Robbins | Truman Capote | Tryon Edwards

Unknown | Ursula K. Le Guin

V. S. Naipaul | Vaclav Havel | Victor Frankl | Victor Hugo | Vince Lombardi | Vincent Van Gogh | Virginia Satir | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Voltaire

W. C. Fields | W. E. B. Du Bois | W. H. Auden | W. Somerset Maugham | Walt Whitman | Walter Cronkite | Walter Lippmann | Warren Bennis | Washington Irving | Wayne Dyer | Wendell Berry | Wendell Phillips | Wendy Kaminer | Will Durant | Will Rogers | Willa Cather | William Arthur Ward | William Blake | William Butler Yeats | William Cowper | William E. Gladstone | William Ellery Channing | William Hastie | William Hazlitt | William James | William Lloyd Garrison | William O. Douglas | William Osler | William Penn | William Ralph Inge | William Robertson Smith | William Shakespeare | William Sloane Coffin | William Wordsworth | Wilma Mankiller | Winston Churchill | Woodrow Wilson | Woody Allen

Yogi Berra

Zelda Fitzgerald | Zig Ziglar | Zora Neale Hurston

 

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