1 John Adams

1 Samuel Adams

4 Hannah Arendt

3 Aristotle

3 Marcus Aurelius

1 Claude Bernard

1 Norman Bethune

1 Ambrose Bierce

1 William Blake

3 Napoleon Bonaparte

1 Charlotte Bront

1 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1 William Cullen Bryant

4 Edmund Burke

1 George Carlin

1 Thomas Carlyle

1 Coco Chanel

1 Anton Chekhov

11 Cicero

1 Arthur C. Clarke

2 Carl von Clausewitz

1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1 Confucious

1 Jacques-Yves Cousteau

1 Salvador Dali

1 Clarence Darrow

1 Charles Darwin

1 René Descartes

2 John Dewey

1 Marlene Dietrich

1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3 Arthur Conan Doyle

4 Albert Einstein

1 Dwight D. Eisenhower

4 Ralph Waldo Emerson

2 Epictetus

2 Epicurus

1 Euripides

1  Viktor E. Frankl

1 Benjamin Franklin

1 Khalil Gibran

17 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1 Frederick the Great

1 Stephen Hawking

6 Friedrich A. Hayek

2 Friedrich August von Hayek

2 Henry Hazlitt

1 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2 Hegel

1 Katharine Hepburn

1 Hesiod

1 Hippocrates

2 Oliver Wendell Holmes

1 Homer

1 Elbert Hubbart

1 Victor Hugo

1 Aldous Huxley

1 Robert G. Ingersoll

1 Henry James

2 William James

5 Thomas Jefferson

1 Samuel Johnson

4 Juvenal

2 Immanuel Kant

5 John F. Kennedy

7 John Maynard Keynes

1 Soren Kierkegaard

1 Søren Kierkegaard

1 Henry Kissinger

1 Jack Layton

1 Bruce Lee

1 Vladimir Lenin

8 Abraham Lincoln

5 John Locke

1 Moses Maimonides

1 Groucho Marx

1 Marshall McLuhan

1 Golda Meir

1 H. L. Mencken

2 H.L. Mencken

1 John Stuart Mill

4 Ludwig von Mises

1 Michel de Montaigne

7 Montesquieu

1 Edward R. Murrow

7 Friedrich Nietzsche

3 Kilroy J. Oldster

1 George Orwell

3 Thomas Paine

1 Blaise Pascal

2 George S. Patton

1 Frederick S. Perls

1 John Pilger

4 Plato

6 Bias of Priene

1 Ayn Rand

1 Ronald Reagan

1 Ronald Reagan

1 François de La Rochefoucauld

1 Eleanor Roosevelt

1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1 Bertrand Russell

1 Carl Sagan

1 George Santayana

3 Jean-Paul Sartre

18 Arthur Schopenhauer

2 Arthur Schopenhauer

1 Seneca

10 Seneca

3 William Shakespeare

1 George Bernard Shaw

2 Fulton J. Sheen

10 Adam Smith

1 Betty Smith

5 Socrates

1 Susan Sontag

5 Sophocles

1 Stephen Spielberg

2 Baruch Spinoza

2 John Steinbeck

2 Tacitus

1 Alfred Lord Tennyson

1 Alvin Toffler

3 Leo Tolstoy

6 Mark Twain

3 Lao Tzu

1 Sun Tzu

4 Virgil

3 Voltaire

3 Kurt Vonnegut

1 George Washington

1 William Westmoreland

2 Oscar Wilde

1 W.B. Yeats

1 William Pitt the Younger
Henry Kissinger
Because information is so accessible and communication instantaneous, there is a diminution of focus on its significance, or even on the definition of what is significant. This dynamic may encourage policymakers to wait for an issue to arise rather than anticipate it, and to regard moments of decision as a series of isolated events rather than part of a historical continuum. When this happens, manipulation of information replaces reflection as the principal policy tool.
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