A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Interpretation
Age is not determined by years but by one's quest for knowledge and purpose.
This quote by Jean Rostand highlights the idea that the pursuit of goals, dreams, or knowledge keeps one youthful at heart. It suggests that as long as a person is actively seeking and yearning for something, they possess vitality and a spirit that transcends age, thus redefining what it means to grow old.
In practice
In a motivational speech about lifelong learning.
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
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.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.
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