“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.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Prejudice
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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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government
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“There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“To be adult is to be alone.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Age
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“I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Understanding
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“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“To reflect is to disturb one’s thoughts.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Thinking
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“One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Theory
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“Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Beauty
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“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reality
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“The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Power
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“In politics, yesterday’s lie is attacked only to flatter today’s.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Political
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“In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one’s party three times a day.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Political
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“The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.”
Jean Rostand
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Atheism
