R.A. Salvatore -  American author, best known for The Demon Wars Sagas, Forgotten Dreams novels, The New Jedi Order Series.  

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865)

Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology.

John D. Rockefeller (1839 – 1937) American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist. Considered the wealthiest American and the richest person in modern history. 

John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) Prominent English social thinker and philanthropist. Art critic as well as an art patron, and water-colorist.  He wrote on many subjects including geology, ornithology, architecture and botany.

William Golding (1911-1993) Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.

“We move from data to information to knowledge to wisdom. And separating one from the other… knowing the limitations and the danger of exercising one without the others, while respecting each category of intelligence, is generally what serious education is about.” 

Toni Morrison (b 1931), American writer, born in Lorain, Ohio,  She received the the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 Click here or the image below to read the full article on Brain Pickings

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - (1844 -1900) German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and a Latin and Greek scholar.

W.H. Auden, (1907 – 1973) English-American poet. He exerted a major influence on the poetry of the 20th century. Auden’s first book of poetry, "Poems", was published in 1928. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for "The Age of Anxiety". Much of his poetry is concerned with moral issues and evidences a strong political, social, and psychological context.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist and poet. He was a key figure in Spanish language and universal literature.