<< Back to Home
The station has 6,411 Quotes from 1,448 Famous People
Alphabetical Index of Speakers

Recently Added:
"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
    -- Aristotle Plato
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
    -- Mark Twain
"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
    -- Luigi Mangione
"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
    -- Luigi Mangione

Popular Quotes
"A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue."
    -- Assyrian Proverb
"Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?"
    -- Benjamin Franklin
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
    -- Plutarch


Quotes by Topic
Share on Facebook  |  Bookmark and Share

Barack Hussein Obama Quotes

Photo of Barack Hussein Obama
To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.Get Image

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.Get Image

Running for the presidency is a profound decision. Decision no one should make on the basis of media hype or personal ambition alone. And so before I committed myself and my family to this race, I wanted be sure that it was right for us and more importantly right for the country.Get Image

I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.Get Image

The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.Get Image




Browse more quotes by famous person's name: