Jean Rostand Quotes

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright l

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

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

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To be adult is to be alone.

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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.

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

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Theories pass. The frog remains.

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

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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

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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.

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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

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

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

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

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

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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

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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.

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

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

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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

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

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

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

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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.

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

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

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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.

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To reflect is to disturb one’s thoughts.

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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

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30

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

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31

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

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

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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.

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

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

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