Quotes by Abraham Lincoln. For example: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
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Quotes from Albert Einstein. For example:"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Quoets by Aldous Huxley. For example: "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
Quotes from Anne Brontë. For example: "A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine."
A collection of quotes by Aristotle. For example: "If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way."
Quotes by Bill Bryson. For example: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect is essentially being too stupid to appreciate how stupid you are."
Quotes from Charles Dickens. For example: "Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?"
Collection of quotes by Charlie Chaplin. For example: "The mirror is my best friend, because when I cry it never laughs."
Collection of quotes from Dave Barry (humorist). For example: "What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
A collection of quotes from Desmond Tutu.: "If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
Quotes from Dorothy L. Sayers. For example: "A false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit."
Quotes from Drew Barrymore. For example: "I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons."
Quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell. For example: "It isn't knowledge, it's ignorance that - as we've been beautifully told - is bliss."
Quotes from Emily Brontë. For example: "I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!"
Quotes by Francis Bacon. For example: "Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
Quotes by Frans de Waal. For example: Any academic who doubts the depth of animal emotions ought to get a dog.
Quotes from Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. For example: "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
Quotes from George Bernard Shaw. For example: "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist on climate change, born in 2003. Since she was 15 years old she has been challenging world leaders to take action on climate change.
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau. For example: "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
Quotes from J.K. Rowling. For example: "After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure." (Dumbledore)
Quotes from J.R.R. Tolkien. For example:"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;" (The Lord of the Rings)
Quotes from Jane Austen. For example: "Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in."
Quotes by John Lennon. For example: "Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. No hell below us. Above us only sky."
Quotes from John Steinbeck. For example: "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
Quotes from Keith Richards. For example: "You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!"
Quotes by Konrad Lorenz. For example: "I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we."
A collection of quotes by Laozi or Lao-Tse. For example: "Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature."
Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci. For example: "Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."
Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi. For example: "Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
Quotes from Mark Twain. For example: "If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
Collection of quotes from Mick Jagger. For example: "People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters."
Quotes from Mother Teresa. For example: "Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
Quotes from The Oprah Winfrey. For example: "My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
Quotes from Oscar Wilde. For example: "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
Quotes by Plato. For example: "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore. For example: "Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it."
Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. For example: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Quotes by Richard Dawkins. For example: "Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose."
Quotes by Roger Waters. For example: "Ashes or diamonds, foe or friend, we're all equal in the end."
Quotes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. For example: "There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them."
A collection of quotes by Socrates. For example: "The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing."
Quotes from Stephen Hawking. For example: "Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth."
Quotes from Steven Pinker. For example: "The beauty of reason is that it can always be applied to understand failures of reason."
Quotes by Thomas Jefferson. For example: "The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its agriculture."
Quotes from William Shakespeare. For example: "Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye."
Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari. For example: "Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised."