Poets Writers & Thinkers

These are some of the Great Poets, Writers and Thinkers from Mankind’s history going all the way back to Aristotle and Epictetus.

Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of ...

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (Persian: جلالالدین محمد بلخى), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (Persian: جلالالدین محمد رومی), and ...

Epictetus (Greek: Ἐπίκτητος; AD 55 – AD 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, ...

Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American lecturer, essayist, and poet. He was best known for leading the Transcendentalist movement. Emerson ...

Walter “Walt” Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he ...

Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers ...

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an ...

Wallace Delois Wattles (1860–1911) Wattles’ best known work is a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich in which ...

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was a minister and author (most notably of The ...

Ken Wilber was born on January 31, 1949 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1967, he enrolled as a pre-med student ...