Jules Verne > Quotes

“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, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“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, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

“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. 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, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”
― Jules Verne

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“I say, you do have a heart!"

"Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
― Jules Verne

“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Science, my boy, 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, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“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

“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, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“The earth does not need new continents, but new men.”
― Jules Verne

“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man”
― Jules Verne

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?
Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“I dream with my eyes open.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
― Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

“A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Mobilis in Mobile”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth