Action Quote by Plutarch

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which…

— Plutarch

“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

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the…

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— E.M. Forster

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

— Dickinson Richards

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

“To Socrates, an individual’s actions were directly related to his intelligence and ignorance. He believed people should develop their self, rather than concentrate on…

— Paul Kleinman

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and…

— Thomas Carlyle

“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done…

— Christopher Paolini

“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

“Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes…

— Charles Spurgeon

“And were the vision of Democritus to have been adopted by Western civilization, instead of being cast aside for the pale views of Plato…

— Carl Sagan