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Quotes About Demonstration

love has to be more than something we feel. It has to be something we do. We have to demonstrate it concretely in our marriage, our family, among our friends and acquaintances, and, yes, even among our enemies.
~ Gary Chapman
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."2
~ Gary Chapman
I think there can be no replacement for teaching people how to make things by showing them how to stick two pieces of wood together.
~ David Linley
Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
~ Bill Ayers
The word thank you ain't enough. You've got to show it, so just go out there and play at a higher level, and instead of saying thank you, show it.
~ Aaron Donald
Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.
~ Steve-O
Actions speak louder than words, and the best way to set an example is to just go out and do a good job.
~ Mena Massoud
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
~ Yvette Clarke
I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can't imagine the civic outrage.
~ Wesley Clark
Sometimes the most fascinating advertising isn't what your brand says to the world, but what it actually does in the world.
~ Sally Hogshead
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
~ Samuel Johnson
quod erat demonstrandum, which is Latin for which is the thing that was going to be proved, which means thus it is proved.
~ Mark Haddon
That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.
~ Anthony Powell
As for me, I will believe in no belief that does not make itself manifest by outward signs. I will think no preaching sincere that is not recommended by the practice of the preacher.
~ Anthony Trollope
Es ignorancia no saber distinguir entre lo que necesita demostración y lo que no la necesita.
~ Aristóteles
It is impossible that there should be demonstration of absolutely everything; [for then] there would be an infinite regress, so that there would still be no demonstration.
~ Aristotle
since we are most strongly convinced when we suppose anything to have been demonstrated; that rhetorical demonstration is an enthymeme
~ Aristotle
I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.
~ Sigmund Freud
I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
~ Simon Singh
Elles [Rosa Luxembourg, Marie Curie] démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'infériorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les a vouées à l'infériorité.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
For fifteen years they exerted pressure, at first without violence, marching with banners, invading meetings, getting arrested, putting on hunger strikes, marching on Parliament..In 1912 more violent tactics were adopted: they burned houses, slashed pictures, trampled flowerbeds, threw stones at police, overwhelmed Lloyd George and Sir Edward Grey with repeated delegations, interrupted public speeches.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
To claim either that only Christian miracles are authentic and all the others false, or that they alone are caused by God and all the rest by demons, is a miserable expedient. For it is an arbitrary claim, and hence, the miracles prove nothing. They themselves need to be proven since they receive a stamp of authenticity from the outside.
~ Simone Weil
There are two ways of recommending true religion and virtue in the world, which God hath made use of: the one is by doctrine and precept; the other by instance and example.
~ John Piper
Everything sold cheaply; this was a state-subsidised store. It was an almost classic demonstration of the theory that all are equal but some are more equal than others;
~ John Trenhaile