Quotes About Demonstration

What can be shown, cannot be said.

I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth. And the fact is I am not prepared to do that.

There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs of the Puritans. Puritanical in that the point becomes the demonstration of one's own virtue rather than the realization of results.

Many people have noted the contrast between the hysterical 'hurt' professed by Muslims and the readiness with which Arab media publish stereotypical anti-Jewish cartoons. At a demonstration in Pakistan against the Danish cartoons, a woman in a black burka was photographed carrying a banner reading 'God Bless Hitler'. In

operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

His pattern of life for twenty years and more had been a demonstration of how to be impulsive and careful at the same time. And his generosity to others also came, like a pack of bacon, with a 'use by' date on it.

Contrary to our metaphors, humans are much more imitative than the other apes. For example: if chimps watch a demonstration on how to get food out of a puzzle box, they, in their turn, skip any unnecessary steps, go straight to the treat. Human children overimitate, reproducing each step regardless of its necessity. There is some reason why, now that it's our behavior, being slavishly imitative is superior to being thoughtful and efficient, but I forget exactly what that reason is.

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

I don't just preach; I put my money where my mouth is!

God wants to show the advantage of His kingdom to the world, but He will not do this without us

People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?

We make our lives complicated to prove that we are very intelligent.

Words of wisdom are easier said when shown, otherwise, they are incomprehensible.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.