Famous Quotes / Jean Rostand
52 Quotations by Jean Rostand
- 1. A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre ...
- 2. A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not ...
- 3. A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
- 4. A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same ...
- 5. Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
- 6. Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t ...
- 7. Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that on ...
- 8. God, that checkroom of our dreams.
- 9. God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
- 10. Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
- 11. I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th ...
- 12. I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
- 13. I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
- 14. I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
- 15. I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei ...
- 16. In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
- 17. In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
- 18. It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the ...
- 19. It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit ...
- 20. It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.