Phineas Quimby
1802 – 1866 · United States · New Thought, Philosophy
Clockmaker turned mental healer whose notebooks seeded the entire New Thought movement.
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- Emma Curtis Hopkins
1849 – 1925 · New Thought, Education
The Quimby cure is the source material Hopkins taught as a curriculum.
- Warren Felt Evans
1817 – 1889 · New Thought, Philosophy
Evans wrote the first books systematising Quimby's mental-healing practice.
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