In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. — Jean Rostand Politics Copy Share Image
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth? — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror. — Jean Rostand Cliffhanger Copy Share Image
In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income. — Jean Rostand Art Copy Share Image
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future. — Jean Rostand Color Copy Share Image
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the… — Jean Rostand Cruelty Copy Share Image
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you… — Jean Rostand Badass Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. — Jean Rostand Criticism Copy Share Image
We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In… — Jean Rostand Future Copy Share Image
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies… — Jean Rostand Book Copy Share Image
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. — Jean Rostand Destined Copy Share Image
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable. — Jean Rostand Book Copy Share Image
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity. — Jean Rostand Inspirational Copy Share Image
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. — Jean Rostand Couple Copy Share Image
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. — Jean Rostand Consent Copy Share Image
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong. — Jean Rostand Freedom Copy Share Image
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. — Jean Rostand Attention Copy Share Image
