Socrates
Philosopher
"To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly"
Demonstration quotes
Demonstration
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Cat Stevens
Singer-songwriter
"Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing."
Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher, Theologian
"Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing."
Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment."
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