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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

12 other thoughts from William Cowper

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

2 more quotes from Imre Lakatos

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

2 quotes from Steven Biko

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

3 other wisdom & wit from Paul Klee

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

46 thoughts from George Santayana

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

7 other quotes from Herbert Read

I want always to be positive.

5 thoughts from Gianni Versace

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

11 views from Manuel Puig

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

2 quotes from Hans Selye

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

2 other views from William John Wills

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

29 thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

3 sayings from Georg Brandes

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

6 quotes from Huey Newton

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

5 thoughts from Knute Rockne

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

4 thoughts from George Allen, Sr.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.

3 wisdom & wit from Georg Simmel

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

105 more views from Albert Einstein

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

7 more quotes from B. F. Skinner

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

7 quotes from James Anthony Froude

The most positive men are the most credulous.

43 sayings from Alexander Pope

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

6 more sayings from Mikhail Bakunin

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

24 thoughts from James A. Baldwin

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

2 more wisdom & wit from Keith Haring

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

59 other wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

19 wisdom & wit from Alexis de Tocqueville

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

12 other quotes from Franz Kafka

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

4 quotes from Emmet Fox

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

9 sayings from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

2 other quotes from Luther Allison