Jules Verne Quotes
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed.
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The wisest man may be a blind father.
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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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.
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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.