Jules Verne Quotes
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
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Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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They have ears but hear not.
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It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.
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Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
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....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.