G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Greatness <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Linus' blog: "13744 supplied", 2010-08-03, Torvalds, Linus, 2010-08-23 http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2010/08/13744-supplied.html, <br class="br">2010s, 2010
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
1880s, Speech Nominating John Sherman for President (1880)
Henry IV of France (1553–1610) first French monarch of the House of Bourbon
Si Dieu me donne encore de la vie je ferai qu’il n’y aura point de laboureur en mon Royaume qui n’ait moyen d’avoir une poule dans son pot. <br class="br">As quoted by Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont in Histoire du roy Henry le Grand http://books.google.com/books?id=_Azvfrm9tcQC&q=%22Si+Dieu+me+donne+encore+de+la+vie+je%22+%22qu'il+n+y+aura%22+%22de+laboureur+en+mon+Royaume+qui+n'ait+moyen+d'auoir%22+%22poule+dans+son%22&pg=PA549#v=onepage (1661).
“Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
As quoted in Think, Vol. 4-5 (1938), p. 32
“If I must fall, may it be from a high place.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
Refusing to recant his ideas, after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for expressing his ideas on religious freedoms (1668 or 1669), as quoted in William Penn, America's First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace http://www.quaker.org/wmpenn.html by Jim Powell.
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877), p.3