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!

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

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.

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.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

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.

Look with all your eyes, look.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

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.

While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

What darkness to you is light to me

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

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.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

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.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

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!

You will travel in a Land of Marvels

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

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!

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

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.

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

You are going to visit the land of marvels.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.