Top 64 Wisest Jules Verne Quotes (NOVELIST)

Top 20 Wise Jules Verne Quotes to Live By (WISDOM)

“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

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore. — The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these **obstacles** have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore.

The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

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

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. — 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**.

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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

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

“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.”
Jules Verne

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. — 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**.

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

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

“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.”
Jules Verne

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

All that is impossible today, may be possible tomorrow.

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

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

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

3 Jules Verne Quotes on Science

“Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity – gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?”
Jules Verne

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

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. — 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**.

2 Jules Verne Quotes on Sea

“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.”
Jules Verne

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

4 Jules Verne Quotes on Travelling

“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.”
Jules Verne

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.

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

13 Inspirational Jules Verne Quotes About Life and Success

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. — 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.

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success. — I can undertake and persevere even without **hope** of **success**.

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

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

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. — When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their **character** changes, we forget the past and dread the **future**.

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

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

'Movement is life' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change. — ‘Movement is life’ and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual **change**.

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

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

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

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

22 Jules Verne Quotes that Will Make You Think

“Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.”
Jules Verne

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

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

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. — 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.

“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?”
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