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Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?


Henri Poincaré

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HENRI MATISSE The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
HENRI BERGSON Do whatever you do intensely.
ROBERT HENRI Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which ...
HENRI BERGSON There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
ROBERT HENRI Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are...
HENRI MATISSE There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he...
HENRI MATISSE If youth but knew; if age but could.
HENRI ESTIENNE Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
HENRI POINCARE What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing sub...
HENRI MATISSE Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
HENRI BERGSON Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no ...
HENRI NOUWEN When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to ...
HENRI ROUSSEAU In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firm...
HENRI MATISSE Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
HENRI NOUWEN Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other b...
HENRI NOUWEN When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realiz...
HENRI NOUWEN Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
HENRI POINCARE The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
HENRI PIRENNE The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may ...
HENRI PIRENNE If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
HENRI ROUSSEAU An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSON One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead ...
HENRI NOUWEN I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
HENRI MATISSE I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all...
HENRI MATISSE Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures...
HENRI MATISSE An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC • When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventiv...
ROBERT HENRI Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
ROBERT HENRI Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is...
ROBERT HENRI If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we co...
HENRI POINCARE Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
HENRI POINCARE In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighb...
HENRI BERGSON The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.
HENRI MURGER I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
HENRI MATISSE Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
HENRI POINCARE Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and ...
HENRI NOUWEN Mathematicians are born, not made.
HENRI POINCARE Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
HENRI POINCARE A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
ROBERT HENRI We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky ...
HENRI MATISSE You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world f...
HENRI NOUWEN Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, ...
HENRI BARBUSSE Quando alguém tem força para vencer a si mesmo, nasceu para grandes empreendimentos.
HENRI LACORDAIRE Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n...
HENRI BARBUSSE Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSON In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole ...
HENRI BERGSON There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON The motive power of democracy is love
HENRI BERGSON The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the...
HENRI BERGSON In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
HENRI NOUWEN It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
ROBERT HENRI I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
ROBERT HENRI Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie...
HENRI POINCARE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to ...
HENRI POINCARE Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the usef...
HENRI POINCARE Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of ston...
HENRI POINCAR L’art de vivre consiste en un subtil mélange entre lâcher prise et tenir bon.
HENRI LEWIS