Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
John Lennon
Singer-songwriter
"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."
Elvis Presley
Singer
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
Leonard Cohen
Singer-songwriter
"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."
Johnny Cash
Singer-songwriter
"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Minister
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
David Attenborough
​Broadcaster
"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure"
Timothy Leary
Psychologist
"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."
Arthur C. Clarke
Science Fiction Author
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
John F. Kennedy
​35th U.S. President
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
Albert Hofmann
Scientist
"Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?"
George Orwell
Novelist
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
Albert Einstein
​Theoretical physicist
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
Winston Churchill
Former British Prime Minister
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
Mahatma Gandhi
Activist
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Nikola Tesla
​Inventor
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
Oscar Wilde
Poet
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Thomas Edison
Inventor
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Mark Twain
Novelist
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Karl Marx
Philosopher
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
Charles Darwin
​Naturalist
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."
Andrew Jackson
​7th U.S. President
"You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
​Composer
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Thomas Jefferson
​3rd U.S. President
"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty."
Thomas Paine
Founding Father
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
George Washington
​1st U.S. President
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
​Philosopher
"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."
Benjamin Franklin
​Founding Father
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
Voltaire
Philosopher
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."
Isaac Newton
​Mathematician
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
William Shakespeare
Poet
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
Galileo Galilei
​Astronomer
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do"
Francis Bacon
​Former Lord Chancellor
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Martin Luther
Professor of Theology
"God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars."
Ferdinand Magellan
Explorer
“The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.”
Michelangelo
Sculptor
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance Polymath
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Julius Caesar
Politician & General
"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."
Jesus of Nazareth
Christ
"O ye my servants, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you; and ye shall bear record of me, even Jesus Christ, that I am the Son of the living God, that I was, that I am, and that I am to come"
Alexander the Great
King
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
Plato
​Philosopher
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Socrates
Philosopher
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."