Top 200 Jules Verne Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Jules Verne

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2. “All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.”

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3. “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

4. “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”

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

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

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

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8. “Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.”

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

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10. “I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.”

— Jules Verne

11. “Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.”

— Jules Verne

12. “You will travel in a Land of Marvels.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.”

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16. “Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.”

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17. “Aures habent et non audient’ – ‘They have ears but hear not.”

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18. “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

19. “A scholar has to know a little of everything.”

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

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21. “Look with all your eyes, look.”

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22. “What you do for money you do badly.”

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

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

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25. “It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.”

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

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27. “I am the law, and I am the judge!”

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28. “On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.”

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

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

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

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

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33. “I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.”

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

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

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36. “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.”

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37. “The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.”

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

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39. “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?”

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40. “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.”

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41. “Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.”

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42. “What darkness to you is light to me.”

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43. “But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...”

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44. “What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?”

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45. “Man is never perfect nor contented.”

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46. “The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”

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47. “The earth does not need new continents, but new men.”

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48. “It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.”

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49. “As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme.”

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50. “Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.”

— Jules Verne