1.
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.
Jules Verne
2.
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.
Jules Verne
3.
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
Jules Verne
4.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
Jules Verne
5.
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
Jules Verne
6.
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
Jules Verne
7.
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.
Jules Verne
8.
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.
Jules Verne
9.
Anything you can imagine you can make real.
Jules Verne
10.
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
Jules Verne
11.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne
12.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules Verne
13.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Jules Verne
14.
Look with all your eyes, look.
Jules Verne
15.
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Jules Verne
16.
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
Jules Verne
17.
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
Jules Verne
18.
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.
Jules Verne
19.
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.
Jules Verne
20.
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
Jules Verne
21.
What darkness to you is light to me
Jules Verne
22.
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?
Jules Verne
23.
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.
Jules Verne
24.
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
Jules Verne
25.
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Jules Verne
26.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
Jules Verne
27.
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.
Jules Verne
28.
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Jules Verne
29.
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
Jules Verne
30.
Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
Jules Verne
31.
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
Jules Verne
32.
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!
Jules Verne
33.
You will travel in a Land of Marvels
Jules Verne
34.
Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
Jules Verne
35.
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.
Jules Verne
36.
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
Jules Verne
37.
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
Jules Verne
38.
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.
Jules Verne
39.
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
Jules Verne
40.
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
Jules Verne
41.
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
Jules Verne
42.
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
Jules Verne
43.
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
Jules Verne
44.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
Jules Verne
45.
What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
Jules Verne
46.
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
Jules Verne
47.
You are going to visit the land of marvels.
Jules Verne
48.
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Jules Verne
49.
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
Jules Verne
50.
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
Jules Verne
