52 Quotations by Jean Rostand
- 21. It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
- 22. It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls ...
- 23. It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
- 24. Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, an ...
- 25. Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, ...
- 26. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
- 27. Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
- 28. One must credit a hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
- 29. One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
- 30. Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
- 31. Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for w ...
- 32. Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and duri ...
- 33. Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra ...
- 34. Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
- 35. The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an ...
- 36. The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
- 37. The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
- 38. The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
- 39. The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
- 40. The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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