Jules Verne Quotes

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

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.

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

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

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

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.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

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.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

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

What you do for money you do badly.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

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

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.

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

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

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

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

Look with all your eyes, look.

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

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.

What darkness to you is light to me

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