Famous quotes containing the word prompted:
“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)
“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)