No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
- Knut HamsunPractice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
- Alexander HaigNegation is the mind`s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
- Alderman Dana McLendonPainting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
- Alexa GromkoModern medicine is a negation of health. It isn`t organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
- Alfonso NunzianteAn exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
- Andrea Cerutti