Jules Verne Quotes
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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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I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
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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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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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They have ears but hear not.
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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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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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....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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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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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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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
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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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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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 that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.
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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.