Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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
Truth
Error
Wells
Truths
Well
Draw
Sometimes
Errors
Draws
Mistake
Attention
Science
Blatant
More quotes by Jean Rostand
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.
Jean Rostand
Kill one man, and you are murderer.
Jean Rostand
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Jean Rostand
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Jean Rostand
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
Jean Rostand
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Jean Rostand
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
Jean Rostand
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand
On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.
Jean Rostand
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
Jean Rostand
One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.
Jean Rostand
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Jean Rostand
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
Jean Rostand
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
Jean Rostand
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.
Jean Rostand
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Jean Rostand
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Jean Rostand
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
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
