Dusty Quotations

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
* #2

Alighieri, Dante
* #2

Angelou, Maya

Aquinas, Thomas
* #2

Aristotle
* #2

Armstrong, Louis

Armstrong, Neil

Astaire, Fred

Augustine

Augustus

Aurelius, Marcus
* #2

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
* #2

Bismarck, Otto von

Bonaparte, Napoléon
* #2 

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Brown, John

Bryan, William Jennings
* #2

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

Cantor, Georg

Carnegie, Dale

Carrel, Alexis

Carver, George Washington

Chanakya

Chang, Eileen

Chaplin, Charlie

Charlemagne

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chesterton, G.K.
* #2

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
* #2

de Jouvenel, Bertrand

de Toqueville, Alexis

Dickens, Charles

Diogenes

Disney, Walt

Dostoevsky, Fyodor
* #2

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.
* #2

Eliot, T.S.

Ellington, Duke

Elliot, Elisabeth

Elizabeth II

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
* #2

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
* #2

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
* #2

Henry, O.

Hepburn, Audrey

Hepburn, Katharine

Hesburgh, Theodore

Hesse, Hermann

Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.
* #2

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.
* #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

Mencius

Miller, Arthur
* #2

Moody, Dwight L.

Morgan, J.P.

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N

Nietzsche, Friedrich
* #2

Nixon, Richard

O

Orwell, George
* #2

O’Toole, Peter

Ovid

P

Parks, Rosa

Pascal, Blaise
* #2

Patton, George S.
* #2

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
* #2

Rossetti, Christina

Rowling, J.K.

Rudolph, Wilma

Rumi
* #2

Ruskin, John

Russell, Bertrand

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S

Sagan, Carl
* #2

Salinger, J.D.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Schweitzer, Albert
* #2

Scott, Walter

Seuss, Dr.

Shakespeare, William

Shaw, George Bernard

Sheen, Fulton J.

Shelley, Mary
* #2

Simon, Carly

Smirnoff, Yakov

Socrates

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
* #2

Spurgeon, Charles

Steinbeck, John
* #2

Stevenson, Adlai I

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stoker, Bram

Sun Tzu
* #2

Suttner, Bertha von

Swift, Jonathan

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T

Tagore, Rabindranath
* #2

Tarkington, Booth

Teresa (Mother)

Tesla, Nikola

Thatcher, Margaret

Thoreau, Henry David
* #2

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 (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