[ jean rostand Quotes ]
|
30 quotations
<Page 1/1
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
[ Age and Aging ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote 
57 votes
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
[ Beauty ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
51 votes
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
[ God ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
48 votes
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
[ God ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
35 votes
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
[ Greatness ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
45 votes
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
[ Reality ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
19 votes
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
[ Paradise ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
43 votes
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
[ Understanding ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
37 votes
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
38 votes
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
25 votes
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
[ Science and Scientists ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
12 votes
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
[ Mistakes ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
55 votes
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
[ Opinions ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
57 votes
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
[ Science and Scientists ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
33 votes
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
[ Theory ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
30 votes
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
[ Involvement ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
32 votes
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
[ Books - Reading ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
32 votes
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
15 votes
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
[ Atheism ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
48 votes
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
[ Ideals and Idealism ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
46 votes
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
[ Power ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
16 votes
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
[ Belief ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
52 votes
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
[ Admiration ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
47 votes
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
[ The future ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
61 votes
To be adult is to be alone.
[ Adulthood ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
31 votes
To hate fatigues.
[ Hatred ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
15 votes
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
[ Ideas ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
10 votes
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
9 votes
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
[ Truth ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
7 votes
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
[ Modesty ]
Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand books
Comment this quote
46 votes