All Time Famous Quotes of Sheikh Ali Hisam-ad-Din Naqshbandi
The eleventh-century Persian Sufi saint and mystic Sheikh Ali Hisam-ad-Din Naqshbandi was also known as Hazrat Shaykh Ali Hujwiri or Data Ganj Bakhsh. His book “Kashf al-Mahjub” (Unveiling the Veiled), which is still very important in Sufi literature, is especially well-known. It is regarded as one of the first Persian treatises on Sufism. There are […]
Read MoreAll Time Famous Quotes of Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili
Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili was born in Morocco in 1187 and died in Egypt in 1258. He was a leading figure in the Shadhili Sufi order, which is one of the most important Sufi orders in the world. He was a prolific writer and his works are still studied by Sufis today. Ash-Shadhili’s teachings are based […]
Read MoreAll Time Famous Quotes of Sophocles
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles Quotes 1. “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” — […]
Read MoreAll Time Famous Quotes of Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. Molière Quotes 1. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” — Molière […]
Read MoreAll Time Famous Quotes of Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialist political thinker and proponent. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences […]
Read MoreAll Time Famous Quotes of George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterized by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. George Orwell Quotes 1. “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public […]
Read MoreAll Time Famous Quotes of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States, and of American literature. Edgar Allan Poe […]
Read MoreAll Time Famous Quotes of Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and […]
Read MoreAll Time Famous Quotes of William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often […]
Read MoreAll Time Famous Quotes of Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, […]
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