(385 quotes found)
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
“Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of”
George Wallace
“Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected”
Marilyn French
“HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.”
Albert Einstein
“Some of our recent wins in China demonstrate our services capabilities,”
Patricia Russo
“"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down".”
Charles Darwin
