Index

Authors

The bar shows how much of what the internet credits to each person is really theirs: sourced, attributed, misquoted, not theirs.

Abraham Lincoln

1809–1865
3 real3 not theirs

Albert Camus

1913–1960
2 real1 not theirs

Albert Einstein

1879–1955
5 real5 not theirs

Alexander Pope

1688–1744
4 real0 not theirs

Ambrose Bierce

1842–c. 1914
2 real0 not theirs

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1900–1944
1 real2 not theirs

Anton Chekhov

1860–1904
2 real1 not theirs

Aristotle

384 BC–322 BC
3 real2 not theirs

Arthur Schopenhauer

1788–1860
1 real2 not theirs

Benjamin Franklin

1706–1790
5 real2 not theirs

Bertrand Russell

1872–1970
1 real1 not theirs

Blaise Pascal

1623–1662
4 real0 not theirs

Buddha

c. 563 BC–c. 483 BC
2 real1 not theirs

C. S. Lewis

1898–1963
1 real1 not theirs

Carl Jung

1875–1961
2 real1 not theirs

Carl Sagan

1934–1996
1 real1 not theirs

Charles Darwin

1809–1882
2 real1 not theirs

Charles Dickens

1812–1870
3 real0 not theirs

Charlotte Brontë

1816–1855
2 real0 not theirs

Cicero

106 BC–43 BC
2 real1 not theirs

Confucius

551 BC–479 BC
4 real2 not theirs

Dante Alighieri

1265–1321
2 real1 not theirs

Edgar Allan Poe

1809–1849
3 real0 not theirs

Edmund Burke

1729–1797
1 real1 not theirs

Eleanor Roosevelt

1884–1962
1 real2 not theirs

Emily Brontë

1818–1848
2 real0 not theirs

Emily Dickinson

1830–1886
3 real0 not theirs

Epictetus

c. 50–c. 135
4 real1 not theirs

Epicurus

341 BC–270 BC
2 real0 not theirs

Ernest Hemingway

1899–1961
1 real2 not theirs

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896–1940
2 real0 not theirs

Francis Bacon

1561–1626
3 real0 not theirs

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1882–1945
2 real0 not theirs

Franz Kafka

1883–1924
4 real1 not theirs

François de La Rochefoucauld

1613–1680
3 real0 not theirs

Friedrich Nietzsche

1844–1900
7 real1 not theirs

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1821–1881
4 real2 not theirs

G. K. Chesterton

1874–1936
1 real2 not theirs

Galileo Galilei

1564–1642
0 real2 not theirs

George Bernard Shaw

1856–1950
6 real2 not theirs

George Eliot

1819–1880
2 real1 not theirs

George Orwell

1903–1950
2 real1 not theirs

George Santayana

1863–1952
2 real0 not theirs

Groucho Marx

1890–1977
2 real0 not theirs

H. L. Mencken

1880–1956
1 real1 not theirs

Helen Keller

1880–1968
2 real0 not theirs

Henry David Thoreau

1817–1862
4 real1 not theirs

Henry Ford

1863–1947
1 real2 not theirs

Heraclitus

c. 535 BC–c. 475 BC
3 real0 not theirs

Hippocrates

c. 460 BC–c. 370 BC
1 real1 not theirs

Horace

65 BC–8 BC
3 real0 not theirs

Immanuel Kant

1724–1804
3 real0 not theirs

Isaac Newton

1643–1727
2 real0 not theirs

J. R. R. Tolkien

1892–1973
2 real0 not theirs

Jane Austen

1775–1817
5 real0 not theirs

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712–1778
2 real0 not theirs

Jean-Paul Sartre

1905–1980
2 real0 not theirs

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749–1832
3 real1 not theirs

John Amos Comenius

1592–1670
1 real0 not theirs

John F. Kennedy

1917–1963
2 real0 not theirs

John Keats

1795–1821
2 real0 not theirs

John Stuart Mill

1806–1873
3 real0 not theirs

Jonathan Swift

1667–1745
3 real0 not theirs

Kahlil Gibran

1883–1931
2 real0 not theirs

Karl Marx

1818–1883
2 real1 not theirs

Lao Tzu

6th c. BC (traditional)
3 real2 not theirs

Leo Tolstoy

1828–1910
4 real1 not theirs

Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519
1 real1 not theirs

Lewis Carroll

1832–1898
2 real1 not theirs

Mahatma Gandhi

1869–1948
4 real5 not theirs

Marcus Aurelius

121–180
5 real1 not theirs

Marie Curie

1867–1934
2 real0 not theirs

Marilyn Monroe

1926–1962
0 real2 not theirs

Mark Twain

1835–1910
6 real6 not theirs

Martin Luther

1483–1546
0 real2 not theirs

Martin Luther King Jr.

1929–1968
3 real0 not theirs

Maya Angelou

1928–2014
1 real1 not theirs

Michel de Montaigne

1533–1592
4 real1 not theirs

Nelson Mandela

1918–2013
1 real2 not theirs

Niccolò Machiavelli

1469–1527
2 real1 not theirs

Nikola Tesla

1856–1943
0 real2 not theirs

Oscar Wilde

1854–1900
11 real1 not theirs

Ovid

43 BC–AD 17
2 real0 not theirs

Pablo Picasso

1881–1973
1 real1 not theirs

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792–1822
2 real0 not theirs

Plato

c. 428 BC–c. 348 BC
2 real2 not theirs

Rabindranath Tagore

1861–1941
3 real0 not theirs

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803–1882
4 real3 not theirs

René Descartes

1596–1650
2 real0 not theirs

Richard Feynman

1918–1988
1 real1 not theirs

Robert Frost

1874–1963
2 real0 not theirs

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850–1894
1 real1 not theirs

Samuel Johnson

1709–1784
4 real0 not theirs

Seneca

c. 4 BC–AD 65
4 real1 not theirs

Sigmund Freud

1856–1939
2 real1 not theirs

Simone de Beauvoir

1908–1986
1 real0 not theirs

Steve Jobs

1955–2011
2 real0 not theirs

Sun Tzu

6th c. BC (traditional)
3 real0 not theirs

Søren Kierkegaard

1813–1855
2 real0 not theirs

Theodore Roosevelt

1858–1919
2 real1 not theirs

Thomas Edison

1847–1931
1 real1 not theirs

Thomas Jefferson

1743–1826
3 real1 not theirs

Thomas Paine

1737–1809
3 real0 not theirs

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

1850–1937
1 real0 not theirs

Victor Hugo

1802–1885
1 real2 not theirs

Vincent van Gogh

1853–1890
2 real1 not theirs

Virgil

70 BC–19 BC
3 real0 not theirs

Virginia Woolf

1882–1941
2 real0 not theirs

Voltaire

1694–1778
4 real3 not theirs

Václav Havel

1936–2011
2 real0 not theirs

Walt Whitman

1819–1892
1 real2 not theirs

William Blake

1757–1827
2 real0 not theirs

William Shakespeare

1564–1616
7 real2 not theirs

Winston Churchill

1874–1965
3 real4 not theirs