Demonstration Quotes

• I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Money
  • Gossip
  • Columns

• To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.

  

  Socrates
  • Believe
  • Ignorance
  • Evidence

• It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.

  

  William Lacy Clay, Jr.
  • Murder
  • Peaceful
  • Demonstration

• Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Child
  • Face to Face

• Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Children
  • Purpose
  • Dimensions

• Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

  

  William Penn
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Roots

• Through acting on the Word of God, you become a demonstration of God's love in action.

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • God
  • Love
  • Action

• I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Teacher
  • Connection
  • Students

• Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

  

  Aristotle
  • Education
  • Know
  • Demand

• They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Powerful
  • Being
  • Revelation

• Just an old-fashioned demonstration. How farming used to be.

  

  Kevin Moore Chroma Key
  • Demonstration
  • Farming

• There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Opinion
  • Wishes
  • Characteristic

• Submission is simply a demonstration of her confidence in the sovereign power of the Lord God.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • Power
  • Confidence
  • Submission

• I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. ... [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. ... [D]emonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Church
  • Opinions
  • Consider

• But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Demonstration
  • Feminists

• The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are stronger than those for doubting.

  

  Andrew Michael Ramsay
  • Proof
  • Probability
  • Demonstration

• The Christmas season reminds us that a demonstration of religion is always much better than a definition of it...especially in front of the kids. Perhaps the best Yuletide decorations are to be wreathed in smiles and wrapped in hugs. The miracle of Christmas is that a baby can be so decisive. It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Religion
  • Christmas
  • Founder

• May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

  

  William Kunstler
  • May
  • Chicago
  • Memorable

• It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Man
  • Demonstration
  • Superior

• It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Educated

• Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. But it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired by the method, some knowledge of the questions, to supply the proof than it is to find it without any previous knowledge.

  

  Archimedes
  • Knowledge
  • Geometry
  • Demonstration

• Elizabeth Warren is, I think, a great demonstration of the kind of movement-oriented model-wielding power from within the Senate. Over and over, she's rallied tons of people to battles that they don't normally get involved in.

  

  Ben Wikler
  • Senate
  • Battles
  • Demonstration

• Helen Crawfurd and the Women's Peace Crusade, made a march on the City Chambers, distributing an illegal leaflet in front of police and even to some of the police as well. The women forced their way into the building and the police had a really tough time trying to get them out. Word spread around that several of them had been arrested and this brought out new and very threatening demonstrations.

  

  Willie Gallacher
  • Building
  • Times
  • Spread

• The situation is very serious, but the people are very serious too and have no intention of giving up. They are determined that they must have a positive response before they withdraw their demonstration.

  

  Edward Seaga
  • Response
  • Giving Up
  • Demonstration

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