Jean Rostand Quotes

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance... view

By: Jean Rostand

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth... view

By: Jean Rostand

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth... view

By: Jean Rostand

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife.. view

By: Jean Rostand

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists... view

By: Jean Rostand

Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god... view

By: Jean Rostand

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed... view

By: Jean Rostand

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls... view

By: Jean Rostand

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths... view

By: Jean Rostand

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of... view

By: Jean Rostand

One kills a man, one is an assassin.. view

By: Jean Rostand

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's... view

By: Jean Rostand

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day... view

By: Jean Rostand

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell... view

By: Jean Rostand

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books... view

By: Jean Rostand

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan... view

By: Jean Rostand

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any... view

By: Jean Rostand

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness... view

By: Jean Rostand

God, that dumping ground of our dreams... view

By: Jean Rostand

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing... view

By: Jean Rostand

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful.. view

By: Jean Rostand

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said... view

By: Jean Rostand

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him... view

By: Jean Rostand

To be adult is to be alone... view

By: Jean Rostand

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be... view

By: Jean Rostand

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence... view

By: Jean Rostand

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it... view

By: Jean Rostand

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds... view

By: Jean Rostand

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it... view

By: Jean Rostand

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few... view

By: Jean Rostand

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should... view

By: Jean Rostand

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us... view

By: Jean Rostand

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost... view

By: Jean Rostand

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past... view

By: Jean Rostand

Theories pass. The frog remains... view

By: Jean Rostand

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men... view

By: Jean Rostand

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void... view

By: Jean Rostand

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts... view

By: Jean Rostand

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt... view

By: Jean Rostand

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that... view

By: Jean Rostand

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we... view

By: Jean Rostand

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair.. view

By: Jean Rostand