Jean Rostand Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Jean Rostand
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. — Jean Rostand
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. — 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. — Jean Rostand
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. — Jean Rostand
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future. — Jean Rostand
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language — Jean Rostand
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires. — Jean Rostand
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. — Jean Rostand
We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do. — 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. — Jean Rostand
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. — Jean Rostand
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. — 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. — Jean Rostand
Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. — Jean Rostand
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. — Jean Rostand
Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle — Jean Rostand
We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe. — Jean Rostand
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. — Jean Rostand
Kill a man and you're a murderer. Kill many and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, you're a god. — Jean Rostand
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it. — Jean Rostand
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. — Jean Rostand
To be adult is to be alone. — Jean Rostand
In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income. — Jean Rostand
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. — Jean Rostand
Theories pass. The frog remains. — Jean Rostand
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. — Jean Rostand
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable. — 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. — Jean Rostand
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. — Jean Rostand
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. — Jean Rostand
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance. — Jean Rostand
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. — Jean Rostand
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. — Jean Rostand
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. — Jean Rostand
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. — Jean Rostand
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. — Jean Rostand
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day. — Jean Rostand
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same. — Jean Rostand
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. — Jean Rostand
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. — Jean Rostand
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. — Jean Rostand
On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite. — Jean Rostand
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always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out. — Jean Rostand
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. — Jean Rostand
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth? — Jean Rostand
There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well. — Jean Rostand
Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God. — Jean Rostand
Kill one man, and you are murderer — Jean Rostand
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. — Jean Rostand
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror. — Jean Rostand
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. — Jean Rostand
God, that checkroom of our dreams. — Jean Rostand
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. — Jean Rostand
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts. — Jean Rostand
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity. — Jean Rostand
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed. — Jean Rostand
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals. — Jean Rostand
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god. — Jean Rostand
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. — Jean Rostand
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing. — Jean Rostand
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. — Jean Rostand
There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly. — Jean Rostand
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. — Jean Rostand
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. — Jean Rostand
To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach. — 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. — Jean Rostand
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up? — 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. — Jean Rostand
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race. — Jean Rostand
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. — Jean Rostand
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. — Jean Rostand