Well, there are close to 200 topics in all – far too many to practice responses in advance.

Also, practicing each of

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these topics is not advisable as it is going to take a lot of time and effort and there is no point in mugging them up.

You could as well spend this time on learning some math. However, there’s a good news. Just scanning through these

two lists will give you an excellent idea of the types of issues and arguments that show up on test day.

I just made things a bit easy for you, though. Most of the topics that show up on the GRE essay section can be broadly

grouped into five categories.

Education

Arts

Government/Politics

Philosophy

Sciences and Technology

So, next time when you practice writing an essay response, make sure you write at least one essay from each of

these categories. And memorize a few quotes related to each one of these topics, as they will be handy.

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List of most useful essay quotes

I’ve compiled a list of easy-to-digest quotes that should help you write the perfect essay. Bookmark this page NOW

for future reference.

The following quotes from great thinkers have been selected based on their relevance to common GRE essay topics
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and for their ease of usage.

1. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance – Socrates

2. A people that value its privileges above its principles soon loses both – Dwight D. Eisenhower

3. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is – Yogi Berra

4. A little inaccuracy can sometimes save a ton of explanation – H.H Munro

5. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a
lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction – E. F. Schumacher

6. A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually – Abba Eban

7. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good – Mohandas Gandhi

8. Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may – Daniel Webster

9. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws
– Plato

10. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing – Theodore
Roosevelt

11. It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong – Voltaire

12. The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression
should be our first object – Thomas Jefferson

13. No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation – Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S President)

14. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work – Emile Zola

15. The world is full of educated derelicts – Calvin Coolidge

16. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a change to get its pants on – Winston Churchill

17. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog – Mark Twain

18. Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire, the other is to get it – Socrates

19. If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning – Aristotle Onasis

20. Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things – Epictetus

21. As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can – Julius Caesar

Now, these are a handful of quotes. The goal is to memorize 5 or 6 of your favorite quotes so you’ll be able to

contextually fit one into the essay on the test day. While practicing, you may look at the list of quotes found above
however, if you can remember a specific quote apposite to your essay topic, try to use it – one quote for every essay.

For those avid writers, who believe the number of quotes above are too low, we have the right tool for you. Ellipsoid
created a random quote generator tool (http://www.ellipsoid.org/gmi/random-quote-generator) that draws 5 famous

quotes from Goodreads every time you reload the page. The good news is these 5 quotes are always theme based
so you know where to use them.
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Conclusion
Writing essays isn’t all about the substance. It’s the basics that many of us forget. If you are going to put in the time to

practice writing essays, might as well maximize the score you could get by deploying a quote in your essays.

So, what’s your favorite quote?

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