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Thought-Provoking Quotes Trivia Quiz

Sometimes when you read a quote, it sticks with you. I hope that if you take this quiz, you will enjoy reading these quotes and perhaps remember some of them. This quiz is all multiple-choice...just choose who said it!

A multiple-choice quiz by Bobbers. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Bobbers

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
143,902

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
887

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. "People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. These too seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words." Hint

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Felix Mendelssohn

Franz Josef Haydn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Question 2 of 10

2. "I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." Hint

Harriet Tubman

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Anne Frank

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Question 3 of 10

3. "What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow." Hint

Henry David Thoreau

Emily Dickinson

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Question 4 of 10

4. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows." Hint

Helen Keller

Dolley Madison

Louisa May Alcott

Saint Terese of Lisieux

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Question 5 of 10

5. "The first thing is character, before money or anything else." Hint

Andrew Carnegie

J. Pierpont Morgan

John D. Rockefeller

William Vanderbilt

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Question 6 of 10

6. "I believe in order to understand." Hint

Saint Dominic

Saint Paul

Saint Augustine

Saint Peter

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." Hint

Ulysses S. Grant

Winston Churchill

Rosa Parks

Amelia Earhart

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Question 8 of 10

8. "...a great soul, with a great purpose, can make a weak body strong and keep it so."
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Benjamin Franklin

Pope John Paul II

Mark Twain

Theodore Roosevelt

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Question 9 of 10

9. "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

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Robert Frost

Sigmund Freud

Albert Einstein

Mother Teresa

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Question 10 of 10

10. "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
Hint

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aristotle

William Shakespeare

Isaac Newton

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Felix Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn said this when asked about the title of his "Song Without Words" pieces.

2. "I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."

Answer: Anne Frank

Anne Frank kept a diary from 1942-1944 while she and her family hid from the Nazis during World War II.

3. "What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow."

Answer: Henry David Thoreau

This was taken from Thoreau's book "Walden," which he wrote when he lived for two years at Walden's Pond.

4. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows."

Answer: Helen Keller

Helen Keller, both blind and deaf at a young age, has many accomplishments. Not only did she learn to talk and read, but she wrote books.

5. "The first thing is character, before money or anything else."

Answer: J. Pierpont Morgan

The irony of this statement is that Mr. Morgan was notorious for having an arrogant attitude and being somewhat of an overbearing person.

6. "I believe in order to understand."

Answer: Saint Augustine

Aurelius Augustinus (Saint Augustine) is a doctor of the Roman Catholic Church.

7. "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."

Answer: Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was not interested in airplanes the first time she saw them. About 10 years later, when she went to a flying exhibition, she began to take notice of airplanes and aviation.

8. "...a great soul, with a great purpose, can make a weak body strong and keep it so."

Answer: Mark Twain

This was from his book "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," which was first published in 1896.

9. "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

Answer: Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa, who lived from 1910 until 1997, spent her life helping the poor. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

10. "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Answer: Aristotle

Aristotle lived from 384-322 B.C. He first studied medicine, but then was sent to learn philosophy with Plato.

Source: Author Bobbers

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