Jules Verne Quotes - Page 2

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.

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

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

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

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

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

Liberty is worth paying for.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

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

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

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

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.

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.

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