“In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.”
John Stuart Mill
“We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.”
Bill Moyers
“does noes not meet the criteria which the Russian side has stated earlier and affirms now.”
Igor Ivanov
“The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing”
Voltaire
“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”
John Burroughs
“To affirm is to make firm.”
Peter McWilliams
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question”
Niels Bohr
