Jean Rostand quotes - page 2

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. (Jean Rostand)
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god. View quote
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. View quote
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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. View quote
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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. View quote
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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed. View quote
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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. View quote
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. View quote
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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. View quote
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. View quote
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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. View quote
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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. (Jean Rostand)
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance. View quote
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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. View quote
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. View quote
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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. View quote
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