Action Quote by Plutarch

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

— Plutarch

Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them

— Dickinson Richards

“He questioned Maurice, who, when he grasped the point, was understood to reply that deeds are more important than words.”

— E.M. Forster

Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like…

— Eric Cantona

“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution…

— Jane Austen

“Like a greater than himself, to the critical question at the critical time he did not answer: and they were again silent.”

— Thomas Hardy

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried…

— Thomas Carlyle

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

“It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the…

— Thomas Merton

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Thales did something different. He asked questions to which he didn’t know the answers.”

— Denis Guedj