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Quotes and Wisdom Trivia Quiz

Who said it? Some should be fairly easy, others not.

A multiple-choice quiz by sprink1234. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
sprink1234

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
37,017

Updated
Aug 16 24

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
13 / 25

Plays
5120

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 25

1. 'To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.' Hint

Joseph Stalin

Winston Churchill

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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Question 2 of 25

2. 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.' Hint

J. Edgar Hoover

Calvin Coolidge

Franklin D. Roosevelt

John F. Kennedy

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Question 3 of 25

3. 'Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.' Hint

Voltaire

Buddha

Confucius

Socrates

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Question 4 of 25

4. 'You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.' Hint

George Washington

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln

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Question 5 of 25

5. 'You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.' Hint

William Vanderbilt

J.P. Morgan

J.D. Rockefeller

Henry Ford

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Question 6 of 25

6. 'I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.' Hint

Isaac Newton

Copernicus

Martin Luther

Galileo

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Question 7 of 25

7. 'A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.' Hint

Edgar Allan Poe

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Robert Frost

Henry David Thoreau

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Question 8 of 25

8. 'I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.' Hint

John Glenn

Alan Shepard

Chuck Yeagar

Buzz Aldrin

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Question 9 of 25

9. 'You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.' Hint

Malcolm X

Medgar Evers

Robert E. Lee

John Lennon

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Question 10 of 25

10. 'Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration.' Hint

Gandhi

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Sigmund Freud

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Question 11 of 25

11. 'The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.' Hint

Napoleon

Vladimir Lenin

Adolf Hitler

Mussolini

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Question 12 of 25

12. 'Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.' Hint

Aaron Burr

Alexander Hamilton

Patrick Henry

Paul Revere

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Question 13 of 25

13. 'There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.' Hint

Alfred Hitchcock

Orson Welles

Stephen King

Boris Karloff

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Question 14 of 25

14. 'Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.' Hint

Benjamin Franklin

Francis Scott Key

Thomas Paine

Thomas Jefferson

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Question 15 of 25

15. 'Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.' Hint

J. Edgar Hoover

Richard Nixon

James Baker

Henry Kissinger

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Question 16 of 25

16. 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' Hint

Voltaire

Michaelangelo

Napoleon

Leonardo de Vinci

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Question 17 of 25

17. 'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.' Hint

Julius Caesar

Aristotle

Plato

Alexander the Great

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Question 18 of 25

18. 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' Hint

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

Theodore Roosevelt

Abraham Lincoln

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Question 19 of 25

19. 'If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.' Hint

Dalai Lama

Ansel Adams

Carl Sagan

Darwin

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Question 20 of 25

20. 'If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.' Hint

Ernest Hemingway

Mark Twain

Ralph Waldo Emerson

L. Ron Hubbard

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Question 21 of 25

21. 'Half this game is 90 percent mental.' Hint

John Wooden

Yogi Berra

Michael Jordan

Babe Ruth

22. 'It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.' Hint

John Glenn

Sally Ride

Alan Shepard

Neil Armstrong

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Question 23 of 25

23. 'The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.' Hint

Charles Dickens

Herman Melville

Walt Disney

Oscar Wilde

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Question 24 of 25

24. 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.' Hint

Thomas Edison

Sir Francis Bacon

Socrates

Albert Einstein

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Question 25 of 25

25. 'This above all to thine own self be true.' Hint

Chaucer

William Shakespeare

St. Peter

John Calvin

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