Jules Verne Quotes
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
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.
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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.
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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.
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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.
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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