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
Al-Ghazali
Ali, Muhammad
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Alighieri, Dante
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Angelou, Maya
Aquinas, Thomas
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Aristotle
* #2
Armstrong, Louis
Armstrong, Neil
Astaire, Fred
Augustine
Augustus
Aurelius, Marcus
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Austen, Jane
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B
Baker, Josephine
Baldwin, James
Ball, Lucille
Barclay, William
Beattie, Melody
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Begin, Menachem
Bell, Art
Berra, Yogi
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Bismarck, Otto von
Bonaparte, Napoléon
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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Brown, John
Bryan, William Jennings
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Buck, Pearl S.
Buckley, WIlliam F. Jr.
Burke, Edmund
Burns, George
Byron (Lord)
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C
Caesar, Julius
Campbell, Thomas
Camus, Albert
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Cantor, Georg
Carnegie, Dale
Carrel, Alexis
Carver, George Washington
Chanakya
Chang, Eileen
Chaplin, Charlie
Charlemagne
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chesterton, G.K.
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Chomsky, Noam
Christie, Agatha
Churchill, Winston
Collins, John Churton
Confucius
Constantine the Great
Cortés, Hernán
Curie, Marie
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D
Dali, Salvador
Daltrey, Roger
Dangerfield, Rodney
daVinci, Leonardo
Descartes, René
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de Jouvenel, Bertrand
de Toqueville, Alexis
Dickens, Charles
Diogenes
Disney, Walt
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
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Douglass, Frederick
Dryden, John
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.
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Eliot, T.S.
Ellington, Duke
Elliot, Elisabeth
Elizabeth II
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Epictetus
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
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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
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Henry, O.
Hepburn, Audrey
Hepburn, Katharine
Hesburgh, Theodore
Hesse, Hermann
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.
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Homer
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
Joseph (Chief)
Joyce, James
Jung, Carl
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K
Kafka, Franz
Kant, Immanuel
Keats, John
Keller, Helen
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kierkegaard, Soren
King, Martin Luther Jr.
King, Stephen
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L
L’Amour, Louis
La Fontaine, Jean de
Landry, Tom
Lao Tzu
L’Engle, Madeleine
Lewis, C.S.
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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
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Mencius
Miller, Arthur
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Moody, Dwight L.
Morgan, J.P.
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N
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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Nixon, Richard
O
Orwell, George
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O’Toole, Peter
Ovid
P
Parks, Rosa
Pascal, Blaise
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Patton, George S.
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Peirce, Charles Sanders
Penn, William
Picasso, Pablo
Pissarro, Camille
Plato
Pliny the Elder
Plutarch
Presley, Elvis
Q
Quayle, Dan
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R
Rand, Ayn
Raleigh, Walter
Reagan, Ronald
Riis, Jacob
Rockefeller Sr., John D.
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rogers, Will
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
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Rossetti, Christina
Rowling, J.K.
Rudolph, Wilma
Rumi
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Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
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S
Sagan, Carl
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Salinger, J.D.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schweitzer, Albert
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Scott, Walter
Seuss, Dr.
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheen, Fulton J.
Shelley, Mary
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Simon, Carly
Smirnoff, Yakov
Socrates
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
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Spurgeon, Charles
Steinbeck, John
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Stevenson, Adlai I
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Sun Tzu
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Suttner, Bertha von
Swift, Jonathan
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T
Tagore, Rabindranath
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Tarkington, Booth
Teresa (Mother)
Tesla, Nikola
Thatcher, Margaret
Thoreau, Henry David
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Tolkien, J.R.R.
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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 (Queen)
Virgil
* #2
Voltaire
* #2
Vonnegut, Kurt
* #2
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W
Ward, William Arthur
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George
Wayne, John
Wells, H.G.
Wesley, John
Whitman, Walt
Wilberforce, William
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Tennessee
Wooden, John
Woodson, Carter G.
Woolf, Virginia
* #2
Wright, Orville
X
X, Malcolm
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Y
Yutang, Lin
Z
Ziglar, Zig
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