Great minds and their quotes
Philosophers, poets, writers: for each of them, a short biography and a selection of quotes whose source is verified.
Albert Einstein1879 – 1955 · 2 quotesTheoretical physicist- Bhagavad Gita2 quotesSacred text / scripture
- Eric Roth1945 – · 2 quotesScreenwriter
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896 – 1940 · 2 quotesNovelist and short‑story writer
Kendrick Lamar1987 – · 2 quotesRapper, songwriter, producer
Paramahansa Yogananda1893 – 1952 · 2 quotesHindu monk, yogi, spiritual teacher and founder of spiritual organizations
T. D. Jakes1957 – · 2 quotesBishop, author, filmmaker and motivational preacher
14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)1935 – · 1 quoteBuddhist monk, religious leader and former political head
A. A. Milne1882 – 1956 · 1 quoteWriter, playwright and children’s poet
Abraham H. Maslow1908 – 1970 · 1 quotePsychologist, founder of humanistic psychology
Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali1058 – 1111 · 1 quoteSunni theologian, Shāfiʿī jurist, philosopher and Sufi
Agatha Christie1890 – 1976 · 1 quoteNovelist (crime) and playwright; also wrote as Mary Westmacott
Albert Camus1913 – 1960 · 1 quoteNovelist, essayist, playwright and journalist
Albert Schweitzer1875 – 1965 · 1 quoteTheologian, philosopher, physician, organist, musicologist and humanitarian
Alfred Adler1870 – 1937 · 1 quotePsychiatrist and psychotherapist; founder of Individual Psychology
André Malraux1901 – 1976 · 1 quotenovelist, essayist, art theorist and statesman
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900 – 1944 · 1 quoteWriter, poet, journalist and aviator
Aristotle384 – 322 BC · 1 quotePhilosopher, scientist and polymath
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam1931 – 2015 · 1 quoteAerospace engineer, science administrator, author and statesman
Barack Hussein Obama II1961 – · 1 quotePolitician, attorney, author
Baruch Spinoza1632 – 1677 · 1 quotePhilosopher
Bhagat Singh1907 – 1931 · 1 quoteanti‑colonial revolutionary, socialist thinker, writer
Blaise Pascal1623 – 1662 · 1 quoteMathematician, physicist, inventor and religious thinker
Carl Gustav Jung1875 – 1961 · 1 quotePsychiatrist, psychologist and author
Carl Ransom Rogers1902 – 1987 · 1 quotePsychologist, psychotherapist, author and educator
Charles Darwin1809 – 1882 · 1 quotenaturalist, geologist and biologist
Chris Evans1981 – · 1 quoteActor, producer and director- Clarissa Pinkola Estés1945 – · 1 quotepoet, psychoanalyst and post‑trauma specialist
Confucius551 – 479 BC · 1 quotePhilosopher, teacher, political advisor
Crazy Horse1840 – 1877 · 1 quoteWar leader and political leader
C. S. Lewis1898 – 1963 · 1 quoteWriter, literary scholar, medievalist and Christian apologist
Deborah Harkness1965 – · 1 quoteHistorian and novelist
Diane Dufresne1944 – · 1 quoteSinger and performer
Dwight Lyman Moody1837 – 1899 · 1 quoteEvangelist, preacher, publisher and religious author
Édouard Herriot1872 – 1957 · 1 quotePolitician, statesman, writer
Eleanor Roosevelt1884 – 1962 · 1 quotePolitical figure, diplomat and author- Elif Shafak1971 – · 1 quoteSufi mystic and spiritual teacher
Emiliano Zapata1879 – 1919 · 1 quoteRevolutionary leader and agrarian activist
Epictetus50 – 135 · 1 quoteStoic philosopher and teacher; former slave
Ernest Hemingway1899 – 1961 · 1 quoteNovelist, short‑story writer
Fannie Lou Hamer1917 – 1977 · 1 quoteCivil‑rights activist and voting‑rights organizer
Francis of Assisi1181 – 1226 · 1 quoteCatholic friar, preacher and founder of the Franciscan order
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche1844 – 1900 · 1 quotePhilosopher, classical philologist, essayist and cultural critic
Fyodor Dostoevsky1821 – 1881 · 1 quoteNovelist, short‑story writer and essayist
Gautama Buddha563 – 483 BC · 1 quoteFounder of Buddhism; spiritual teacher and teacher of the Dharma
George Bernard Shaw1856 – 1950 · 1 quotePlaywright, critic, polemicist and social reformer
Hafez1315 – 1390 · 1 quotelyric poet with Sufi influence
Harriet Tubman1822 – 1913 · 1 quoteabolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, nurse and Civil War operative
Henry IV of France1553 – 1610 · 1 quoteKing of France and Navarre
Herbert Bayard Swope1882 – 1958 · 1 quoteJournalist and newspaper editor
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.1940 – 2023 · 1 quoteAuthor; self-help / inspirational writer
Isaac Newton1642 – 1726 · 1 quoteMathematician, physicist, astronomer and natural philosopher
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi1207 – 1273 · 1 quotePoet, Islamic scholar, Sufi mystic
Jean Cocteau1889 – 1963 · 1 quotePoet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker and visual artist
Jean de La Fontaine1621 – 1695 · 1 quotePoet and fabulist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712 – 1778 · 1 quotePhilosopher, political theorist, and writer
Jean Jaurès1859 – 1914 · 1 quoteSocialist politician, philosopher and journalist
Jean-Paul Sartre1905 – 1980 · 1 quotePhilosopher, novelist, playwright; public intellectual
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton1834 – 1902 · 1 quoteHistorian, writer, liberal Catholic intellectual
John Lennon1940 – 1980 · 1 quotesinger, songwriter, peace activist
Laozi1 quotePhilosopher / semi‑legendary sage
Leonardo da Vinci1452 – 1519 · 1 quotePainter, inventor, engineer, anatomist, and notebook writer
Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)1869 – 1948 · 1 quoteLawyer, anti-colonial leader, political ethicist
Maria Montessori1870 – 1952 · 1 quotePhysician, educator, educational theorist
Marie Curie1867 – 1934 · 1 quotePhysicist and chemist
Marilyn Monroe1926 – 1962 · 1 quoteActress, model and cultural icon
Mark Twain1835 – 1910 · 1 quoteHumorist, novelist, essayist and social critic
Martin Luther King Jr.1929 – 1968 · 1 quoteBaptist minister, theologian, civil rights leader
Mary Tyler Moore1936 – 2017 · 1 quoteActress, producer and social advocate
Nelson Mandela1918 – 2013 · 1 quotelawyer, anti‑apartheid activist, statesman
Niccolò Machiavelli1469 – 1527 · 1 quoteDiplomat, civil servant, historian and political theorist
Nicky Gumbel1955 – · 1 quoteAnglican priest, author and former barrister
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux1636 – 1711 · 1 quotePoet, critic and literary theorist
Nouman Ali Khan1978 – · 1 quoteIslamic speaker and Qur'anic educator
Oscar Wilde1854 – 1900 · 1 quoteWriter, poet and playwright
Pierre de Coubertin1863 – 1937 · 1 quoteEducator, historian, founder of the modern Olympic Movement
Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)70 – 19 BC · 1 quotePoet
Rachel Boston1 quote- Renaud Dillies1 quoteComic author and illustrator
René Descartes1596 – 1650 · 1 quotePhilosopher, mathematician and natural philosopher
Richard Rohr1943 – · 1 quoteCatholic priest, Franciscan friar, author and spiritual teacher
Robert Browning1812 – 1889 · 1 quotePoet and playwright
Samuel Beckett1906 – 1989 · 1 quoteWriter, playwright and poet
Seneca4 BC – 65 · 1 quoteStoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist
Shams Tabrizi1185 – 1247 · 1 quoteSufi mystic and spiritual teacher
Simone de Beauvoir1908 – 1986 · 1 quotePhilosopher, novelist, memoirist, public intellectual
Sir Winston Churchill1874 – 1965 · 1 quoteStatesman, writer
Snoop Dogg1971 – · 1 quoteRapper, songwriter, actor and media personality
Socrates470 – 399 BC · 1 quotePhilosopher
Thomas Alva Edison1847 – 1931 · 1 quoteInventor, entrepreneur and industrial researcher
Tom Robbins1932 – 2025 · 1 quoteNovelist
Tyga1989 – · 1 quoteRapper, singer and songwriter
Victor Hugo1802 – 1885 · 1 quotePoet, novelist, playwright and political figure
Voltaire1694 – 1778 · 1 quoteWriter, philosopher, historian, playwright, polemicist- William Arthur Ward1921 – 1994 · 1 quoteMotivational writer, speaker and educator
William Blake1757 – 1827 · 1 quotePoet, painter and printmaker- Yasmin Mogahed1 quoteAuthor, speaker and educator in Islamic spirituality