| 100% | PLATO | 5 | He wrote "No human thing is of serious importance" |
| 47% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote "Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal" |
| 40% | PLATO | 5 | He wrote "Knowledge is the food of the soul" |
| 40% | THOREAU | 7 | He wrote "In wildness is the preservation of the world" |
| 38% | TSELIOT | 7 | He wrote "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" |
| 38% | DESADE | 6 | He wrote "It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure" |
| 38% | TOLSTOY | 7 | He wrote the treatise on nonviolence The Kingdom of God Is Within You |
| 37% | ERASMUS | 7 | He wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" |
| 37% | MLK | 3 | He wrote about “a positive peace which is the presence of justice,” for short |
| 37% | LEAR | 4 | He wrote "There was an old man of Thermopylae / Who never did anything properly ..." |
| 37% | KAFKA | 5 | He wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" |
| 37% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" |
| 37% | YEATS | 5 | He wrote, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity" |
| 37% | EARNEST | 7 | Oscar Wilde wrote about The Importance of Being it |
| 36% | DESADE | 6 | He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" |
| 35% | PROTAGORAS | 10 | Greek philosopher who wrote "Man is the measure of all things" |
| 35% | WILDE | 5 | He wrote "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies" |
| 35% | KEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" |
| 33% | TSELIOT | 7 | He said the most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible |
| 33% | MATTERED | 8 | Was of real importance |
| 33% | AESOP | 5 | He wrote of sour grapes |
| 33% | AESOP | 5 | He wrote of ''sour grapes'' |
| 33% | POE | 3 | He wrote of Roderick Usher |
| 33% | AESOP | 5 | He wrote of talking animals |
| 33% | RECK | 4 | Be of importance, old-style |
| 32% | IMMANUELKANT | 12 | *Philosopher who wrote "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" |
| 32% | KAL | 3 | Actor Penn whose character was written out of "House" so he could work at the White House |
| 32% | NASH | 4 | He wrote "The Bronx? No, thonx!" |
| 32% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote "Hell is other people" |
| 32% | SUNTZU | 6 | He wrote "All war is deception" |