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"30 Jean Rostand Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 30 October 1894. Died: 4 September 1977 | Biologist | Philosopher |

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Time Envying People Wish
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty Art Ugliness Subdued
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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.

Minds Humanity Power Hearts
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Admirable Fortitude Tolerate Wealth
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Truth Great Minds Fight
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science Gods Worthy Men
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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

Stupidity Vanity Fail Direction
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Think Why We Computers
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The obligation to endure gives us the right to know

Obligation Endure Right Know
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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Falsity Idea Beautiful Mind
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Take heed Critics Fair Resist
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Pessimism Point Sincerity
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Married Suited Partners Quarrel
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Watch Modesty Prescence Grounds
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Man Old Seeking Something
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Important Science Forget Things
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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.

Moments Truth Opinion Cost
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Nobility Human being Strictly Convictions
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Love Idea Little
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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

Offend Thoughts Expressed Souls
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Nothing Leads Scientist Truth
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Moments Wish Future Past
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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

Ideals Reveal Vices
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Politics Lie Flatter Today's
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Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day

Marriage Simplifies Life Complicates
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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Science Free Minds Instincts
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To live is often to struggle toward goals one has a desire to reach.
Live Struggle Goals Desire
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Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

Being right Important Freedom Wrong
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

Big Little Truths Race
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Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Literature Proclaiming Careful Conceal
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Jean Rostand Quotes & Sayings