Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Jean Rostand
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Biologist
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
Paris
France
Pessimist
Pessimism
Cynicism
Sincerity
Point
Suspecting
Funny
Pessimists
Even
Extends
Cynic
More quotes by Jean Rostand
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
Jean Rostand
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Jean Rostand
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Jean Rostand
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
Jean Rostand
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Jean Rostand
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Jean Rostand
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
Jean Rostand
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
Jean Rostand
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Jean Rostand
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
Jean Rostand
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Jean Rostand
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Jean Rostand
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
Jean Rostand
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Jean Rostand
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Jean Rostand
