Jules Verne Quotes, Thoughts and images

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What darkness to you is light to me

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

Look with all your eyes, look.

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

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

What you do for money you do badly.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

You will travel in a Land of Marvels

Aures habent et non audient They have ears but hear not

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

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

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

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