Jean Rostand Quotes

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

Two half truths do not make a truth.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Many a truth is the result of an error.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?

It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

It's very disconcerting to start out and to say, "I'm going to tell the truth," and then to realize it's that much trouble.

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

Humility is all about being truthful and honest.

It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

To be direct and honest is not safe.

There are secrets in all families.