Quotes from authors born in 1647
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
Pierre Bayle
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Pierre Bayle
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Pierre Bayle
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
Pierre Bayle
Michael W. Smith 
Emmy Rossum 
Harold Grange 
Joe Paterno 
Anna Akhmatova 
Ida Lupino 
Bessie Smith 
Anthony Lake