Jean-Henri Fabre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre

#Memories #Past #Thinking
In many cases, ignorance is a good thingÂ : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one's reading. I have experienced this once again. ... Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre

#Reading #Ignorance #Track
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre

#Past #Fossils #Instinct
If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre

#Vegetables #Given #Beans
Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre

#Philosophy #Personality #Mind
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre

#Ignorance #Perfect #Feelings
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre

#Heritage #Firsts #Bees
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre

#Herds #Vulgar
Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre

#Fields
History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre

#Kings #Names #Way

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