Causes Quote by Aristotle

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

— Socrates

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

— Aristotle

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

— Aristotle

“It is good to tell people what we mean, but it is infinitely better to show them. People are looking for a demonstration, not…

— Robert E. Coleman

Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

— Eric Holder

“The definition of a premise is something that is to be taken without the need for proof.”

— Katherine Woodward Thomas

This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.

— David Corn

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason…

— William Ernest Hocking

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

— Denis Diderot

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan