Dusty Quotations
“Dusty Quotations” are thought-provoking quotes from historical figures (writers, politicians, military officers, entertainers, etc.) You can click on the names below to see what these folks have said. These posts also include a biographical section on the speaker, following his or her quote… because learning is fun.
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A
Abagnale, Frank
Aeschylus
Aesop
Aldrin, Buzz
Ali, Muhammad
Alighieri, Dante
Angelou, Maya
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Armstrong, Louis
Armstrong, Neil
Astaire, Fred
Augustine
Augustus
Aurelius, Marcus
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B
Baker, Josephine
Baldwin, James
Ball, Lucille
Barclay, William
Beattie, Melody
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Begin, Menachem
Berra, Yogi
Bismarck, Otto von
Bonaparte, Napoléon
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Brown, John
Bryan, William Jennings
Buck, Pearl S.
Buckley, WIlliam F. Jr.
Burke, Edmund
Burns, George
Byron (Lord)
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C
Caesar, Julius
Campbell, Thomas
Camus, Albert
* #2
Carrel, Alexis
Carver, George Washington
Chanakya
Chang, Eileen
Chaplin, Charlie
Charlemagne
Chesterton, G.K.
Chomsky, Noam
Christie, Agatha
Churchill, Winston
Confucius
Constantine the Great
Cortés, Hernán
Curie, Marie
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D
Dali, Salvador
Daltrey, Roger
Dangerfield, Rodney
daVinci, Leonardo
Descartes, René
de Toqueville, Alexis
Dickens, Charles
Diogenes
Disney, Walt
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Douglass, Frederick
Du Bois, W. E. B
Dumas, Alexandre
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
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E
Earhart, Amelia
Edison, Thomas A.
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eliot, T.S.
Ellington, Duke
Elliot, Elisabeth
Elizabeth II
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Euripides
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F
Fellini, Federico
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Foote, Shelby
Ford, Henry
Forster, E.M.
Frankl, Viktor
Franklin, Benjamin
Fuller, Thomas
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G
Gable, Clark
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gilbran, Khalil
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Graham, Billy
Grant, Ulysses S.
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H
Hamilton, Alexander
Harvey, Paul
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hedberg, Mitch
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry, O.
Hepburn, Audrey
Hepburn, Katharine
Hesburgh, Theodore
Hesse, Hermann
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.
* #2
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hugo, Victor
Hume, David
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I
Ironside, H.A.
J
Jackson, Andrew
Jefferson, Thomas
Jerome
Joan of Arc
John Paul II
Jones, John Paul
Jones, Quincy
Joyce, James
Jung, Carl
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K
Kafka, Franz
Kant, Immanuel
Keller, Helen
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
King, Martin Luther Jr.
King, Stephen
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L
L’Amour, Louis
Landry, Tom
L’Engle, Madeleine
Lewis, C.S.
* #2
Lincoln, Abraham
Livingstone, David
Locke, John
Lombardi, Vince
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M
MacArthur, Douglas
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Maistre, Joseph de
Mandela, Nelson
Marshall, George C.
Marshall, Thurgood
Marx, Groucho
Mason, George
Melville, Herman
* #2
Miller, Arthur
Moody, Dwight L.
Morgan, J.P.
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N
Nietzsche, Friedrich
* #2
O
Orwell, George
* #2
O’Toole, Peter
Ovid
P
Parks, Rosa
Pascal, Blaise
* #2
Patton, George S.
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Penn, William
Picasso, Pablo
Pissarro, Camille
Plato
Plutarch
Presley, Elvis
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R
Raleigh, Walter
Reagan, Ronald
Riis, Jacob
Rockefeller Sr., John D.
Rogers, Will
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
* #2
Rossetti, Christina
Rowling, J.K.
Rumi
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
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S
Sagan, Carl
* #2
Salinger, J.D.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schweitzer, Albert
Scott, Walter
Seuss, Dr.
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheen, Fulton J.
Shelley, Mary
* #2
Simon, Carly
Smirnoff, Yakov
Socrates
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Spurgeon, Charles
Steinbeck, John
Stevenson, Adlai I
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Sun Tzu
* #2
Suttner, Bertha von
Swift, Jonathan
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T
Tagore, Rabindranath
Teresa (Mother)
Tesla, Nikola
Thatcher, Margaret
Thoreau, Henry David
Tolkien, J.R.R.
* #2
Tolstoy, Leo
Tozer, A.W.
Traubel, Horace
Trotsky, Leon
Truman, Harry S.
Tubman, Harriet
Turgenev, Ivan
Tutu, Desmond
Twain, Mark
* #2
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U
Unknown
V
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Van Gogh, Vincent
Verne, Jules
Victoria
Virgil
Voltaire
* #2
Vonnegut, Kurt
* #2
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W
Ward, William Arthur
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George
Wayne, John
Wesley, John
Whitman, Walt
Wilberforce, William
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Tennessee
Wooden, John
Woodson, Carter G.
Woolf, Virginia
* #2
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Y
Yutang, Lin
Z
Ziglar, Zig
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