Edward Du Bois may refer to:
- Eduard Dubois, (1619-1696) Flemish-born painter active in Holland, Italy and England.
- Edward Dubois (wit) (1774-1850), English wit and man of letters.
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist.
Famous quotes containing the words edward and/or bois:
“... the moment we try to fix our attention upon consciousness and to see what, distinctly, it is, it seems to vanish: it seems as if we had before us a mere emptiness. When we try to introspect the sensation of blue, all we can see is the blue; the other element is as if it were diaphanous. Yet it can be distinguished if we look attentively enough, and know that there is something to look for.”
—George Edward Moore (1873–1958)
“This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)