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
Addair, George
Aeschylus
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Aesop
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Aldrin, Buzz
Al-Ghazali
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Ali, Muhammad
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Alighieri, Dante
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Angelou, Maya
Aquinas, Thomas
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Aristotle
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Armstrong, Louis
Armstrong, Neil
Asimov, Isaac
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Astaire, Fred
Augustine
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Augustus
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Aurelius, Marcus
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Austen, Jane
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B
Bacon, Francis
Baker, Josephine
Baldwin, James
Ball, Lucille
Barclay, William
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Beattie, Melody
Beckett, Samuel
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Beethoven, Ludwig van
Begin, Menachem
Bell, Art
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Berra, Yogi
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Bismarck, Otto von
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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
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Burns, George
Byron (Lord)
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C
Caesar, Julius
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Campbell, Thomas
Camus, Albert
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Cantor, Georg
Carnegie, Dale
Carrel, Alexis
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Carver, George Washington
Cato the Younger
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chanakya
Chang, Eileen
Chaplin, Charlie
Charlemagne
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Chesterton, G.K.
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Chomsky, Noam
Christie, Agatha
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Churchill, Winston
Cliburn, Van
Cohn, Roy
Collins, John Churton
Coltrane, John
Confucius
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Constantine the Great
Cook, James
Coolidge, Calvin
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Cortés, Hernán
Cromwell, Oliver
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Curie, Marie
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D
Dali, Salvador
Daltrey, Roger
Dangerfield, Rodney
daVinci, Leonardo
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da Gama, Vasco
Davis, Miles
de Gaulle, Charles
de Molay, Jacques
Descartes, René
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de Jouvenel, Bertrand
de Toqueville, Alexis
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Diana, Princess of Wales
Dickens, Charles
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Diogenes
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Disney, Walt
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor
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Douglass, Frederick
Drake, Francis
Dryden, John
Du Bois, W. E. B
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Dumas, Alexandre
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence
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E
Earhart, Amelia
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Edison, Thomas A.
Einstein, Albert
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
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Eliot, T.S.
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Ellington, Duke
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Elliot, Elisabeth
Elizabeth II
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Epictetus
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Euripides
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F
Fellini, Federico
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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Foote, Shelby
Ford, Henry
Forster, E.M.
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Francis of Assisi
Frankl, Viktor
Franklin, Benjamin
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Frazier, Joe
Frederick the Great
Fuller, Thomas
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G
Gable, Clark
Gandhi, Mahatma
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Gibran, Khalil
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Gillespie, Dizzy
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Graham, Billy
Grant, Ulysses S.
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H
Hamilton, Alexander
Hammerstein-Equord, Kurt von
Hancock, John
Hartley, L.P.
Harvey, Paul
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Hedberg, Mitch
Hemingway, Ernest
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Henry, O.
Henson, Jim
Hepburn, Audrey
Hepburn, Katharine
Hesburgh, Theodore
Hesse, Hermann
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.
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Homer
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Hoover, Herbert
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Hoover, J. Edgar
Hugo, Victor
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Hume, David
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I
Ironside, H.A.
J
Jackson, Andrew
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Jefferson, Thomas
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Jerome
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Joan of Arc
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John Paul II
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Jones, John Paul
Jones, Quincy
Jordan, Robert
Joseph (Chief)
Joyce, James
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Jung, Carl
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Justinian
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K
Kafka, Franz
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Kellogg, Will Keith
Kant, Immanuel
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Keats, John
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Keller, Helen
Kennedy, John F.
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Kennedy, Robert F.
Kierkegaard, Soren
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King, Martin Luther Jr.
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King, Stephen
Kipling, Rudyard
Kubrick, Stanley
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L
L’Amour, Louis
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Landry, Tom
Lao Tzu
Lawrence, T.E.
L’Engle, Madeleine
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Lewis, C.S.
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Lincoln, Abraham
Livingstone, David
Locke, John
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Lombardi, Vince
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M
MacArthur, Douglas
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MacCaig, Norman
Machiavelli, Niccolo
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Magellan, Ferdinand
Mahler, Gustav
Maistre, Joseph de
Malory, Thomas
Mandela, Nelson
Marshall, George C.
Marshall, Thurgood
Marx, Groucho
Mason, George
McCourt, Frank
Melville, Herman
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Mencius
Miller, Arthur
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Moody, Dwight L.
Morgan, J.P.
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Musonius Rufus
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N
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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Nixon, Richard
O
O’Connor, Sinead
O’Toole, Peter
Orwell, George
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Ovid
P
Parks, Rosa
Pascal, Blaise
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Patton, George S.
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Pavese, Cesare
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Penn, William
Saint Peter
Peter the Great
Saint Philomena
Phillips, Waite
Picasso, Pablo
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Pio of Pietrelcina
Pissarro, Camille
Plato
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Pliny the Elder
Plutarch
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Prefontaine, Steve
Presley, Elvis
Pythagoras
Q
Quayle, Dan
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R
Rand, Ayn
Raleigh, Walter
Reagan, Ronald
Rhodes, Dusty
Riis, Jacob
Rockefeller Sr., John D.
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rockne, Knute
Roddenberry, Gene
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.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schopenhauer, Arthur
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Schultz, Charles M.
Schweitzer, Albert
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Scott, Walter
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
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Seuss, Dr.
Shakespeare, William
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Shaw, George Bernard
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Sheen, Fulton J.
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Shelley, Mary
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Sherman, William Teceumseh
Simon, Carly
Smirnoff, Yakov
Socrates
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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
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Spurgeon, Charles
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Steinbeck, John
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Steinem, Gloria
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
Tecumseh
Teresa (Mother)
Tesla, Nikola
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Thatcher, Margaret
Thoreau, Henry David
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Tolkien, J.R.R.
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Tolstoy, Leo
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Tozer, A.W.
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Traubel, Horace
Trotsky, Leon
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Truman, Harry S.
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Tubman, Harriet
Turgenev, Ivan
Tutu, Desmond
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Twain, Mark
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U
Unknown
V
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Van Gogh, Vincent
Verne, Jules
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Victoria (Queen)
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Vidal, Gore
Virgil
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Voltaire
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Vonnegut, Kurt
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W
Ward, William Arthur
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George
Wayne, John
Wells, H.G.
Wesley, John
West, Morris
White, T.H.
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Whitman, Walt
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Wilberforce, William
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Tennessee
Wilson, E.O.
Wooden, John
Woodson, Carter G.
Woolf, Virginia
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Wright, Orville
X
X, Malcolm
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Y
Yutang, Lin
Z
Zeno of Citium
Ziglar, Zig
