Jules Verne Quotes - Page 3

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

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

You will travel in a Land of Marvels

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

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

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

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

External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

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

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

What one man can think, another man can do.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?