Real quotes from history, with sources

Most quote sites copy each other, so fake quotes spread. Every quote on Kleos lists where it comes from (the book, letter or ancient historian) so you can check it. We also flag the famous ones that were never said.

Marcus Aurelius6 sourced quotes

Seneca4 sourced quotes

Alexander the Great4 sourced quotes

Socrates4 sourced quotes

Sun Tzu5 sourced quotes

Leonidas3 sourced quotes

Epictetus4 sourced quotes

Napoleon Bonaparte4 sourced quotes

Julius Caesar4 sourced quotes

Aristotle4 sourced quotes

Leonardo da Vinci4 sourced quotes

Cleopatra4 sourced quotes

Genghis Khan4 sourced quotes

Abraham Lincoln4 sourced quotes

Winston Churchill4 sourced quotes

Albert Einstein4 sourced quotes

Confucius4 sourced quotes

Nikola Tesla4 sourced quotes

Mahatma Gandhi4 sourced quotes

Isaac Newton4 sourced quotes

Theodore Roosevelt4 sourced quotes

Joan of Arc4 sourced quotes

Hannibal4 sourced quotes

Plato4 sourced quotes

Lao Tzu4 sourced quotes

Charlemagne3 sourced quotes

Saladin3 sourced quotes

Elizabeth I4 sourced quotes

Benjamin Franklin4 sourced quotes

Galileo Galilei4 sourced quotes

Marie Curie3 sourced quotes

Ada Lovelace4 sourced quotes

William Shakespeare4 sourced quotes

Frederick Douglass4 sourced quotes