Famous quotes containing the word prompted:
“Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, “know thyself,” but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)