
„All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.“
— Javier Cercas Spanish writer, journalist and professor of Spanish literature 1962
— Javier Cercas Spanish writer, journalist and professor of Spanish literature 1962
— Danielle Steel American author of romance novels 1947
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
— Padre Pio Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic 1887 - 1968
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
— Frédéric Chopin Polish composer 1810 - 1849
His letter to Tytus Woyciechowski in Poturzyn. Paris, 12 December 1831.
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
— Hans Christian Andersen Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet 1805 - 1875
— H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965
Context: Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -322 p. n. e.
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Romanian politician 1899 - 1938