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William Shakespeare

Uncertain

Writer  •  England

3,879 quotes

FN

Friedrich Nietzsche

Atheist

1844

2,382 quotes

MT

Mark Twain

Agnostic

Writer  •  United States

2,303 quotes

AE

Albert Einstein

Secular

Physicist  •  Germany  •  1879

1,859 quotes

OW

Oscar Wilde

Agnostic

Writer  •  Ireland

1,780 quotes

TJ

Thomas Jefferson

Secular

1743

1,736 quotes

GS

George Bernard Shaw

Secular

1856

1,289 quotes

AL

Abraham Lincoln

Uncertain

Political Leader  •  United States

1,084 quotes

MC

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Uncertain

1,003 quotes

GE

George Eliot

Agnostic

1819

972 quotes

AB

Ambrose Bierce

Uncertain

Writer  •  United States

937 quotes

HM

H. L. Mencken

Agnostic

1880

889 quotes

CO

Confucius

Uncertain

Philosopher  •  China

862 quotes

VW

Virginia Woolf

Secular

787 quotes

GO

George Orwell

Secular

1903

735 quotes

FF

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Uncertain

Writer  •  United States

732 quotes

DL

D. H. Lawrence

Secular

Writer  •  United Kingdom

670 quotes

OV

Ovid

Uncertain

662 quotes

AH

Adolf Hitler

Uncertain

Politician  •  Germany

661 quotes

AS

Arthur Schopenhauer

Secular

Philosopher  •  Germany

571 quotes

LB

Lord Byron

Uncertain

1788

563 quotes

SJ

Steve Jobs

Uncertain

Entrepreneur  •  United States

558 quotes

RI

Robert Green Ingersoll

Atheist

1833

513 quotes

TP

Thomas Paine

Secular

1737

505 quotes

GS

George Santayana

Secular

1863

451 quotes

SF

Sigmund Freud

Atheist

1856

444 quotes

ST

Sun Tzu

Uncertain

430 quotes

JD

John Dewey

Secular

1859

422 quotes

PS

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Atheist

1792

422 quotes

PS

Publilius Syrus

Uncertain

419 quotes

MP

Marcel Proust

Uncertain

1871

411 quotes

SO

Socrates

Uncertain

Philosopher  •  Greece

406 quotes

FK

Franz Kafka

Atheist

1883

397 quotes

KM

Karl Marx

Atheist

1818

396 quotes

EP

Edgar Allan Poe

Uncertain

Writer  •  United States

387 quotes

NM

Niccolo Machiavelli

Secular

1469

372 quotes

DH

David Hume

Secular

Philosopher  •  United Kingdom

367 quotes

CB

Charles Baudelaire

Uncertain

Poet  •  France

341 quotes

HW

H. G. Wells

Secular

1866

341 quotes

FS

Friedrich Schiller

Uncertain

1759

340 quotes

GS

Gertrude Stein

Secular

1874

339 quotes

TE

Thomas A. Edison

Uncertain

1847

332 quotes

JB

Josh Billings

Uncertain

1818

326 quotes

FP

Fernando Pessoa

Uncertain

317 quotes

JJ

James Joyce

Secular

Novelist, Writer, Poet, Playwright  •  Ireland  •  1882

306 quotes

CB

Christian Nestell Bovee

Uncertain

Writer  •  United States

301 quotes

GF

Gustave Flaubert

Secular

1821

286 quotes

JU

Juvenal

Uncertain

284 quotes

TH

Thomas Huxley

Agnostic

1825

282 quotes

EG

Emma Goldman

Secular

Activist  •  United States

273 quotes

WS

Wallace Stevens

Uncertain

267 quotes

CL

Charles Lamb

Uncertain

Writer  •  United Kingdom

255 quotes

AE

Aesop

Uncertain

245 quotes

AG

Andre Gide

Secular

Writer  •  France

241 quotes

TH

Thomas Hobbes

Uncertain

1588

240 quotes

VL

Vladimir Lenin

Atheist

236 quotes

MA

Matthew Arnold

Agnostic

1822

232 quotes

WC

Willa Cather

Uncertain

230 quotes

TM

Thomas B. Macaulay

Uncertain

1800

229 quotes

HL

H. P. Lovecraft

Atheist

1890

220 quotes