110+ Jules Verne Quotes On Sea, Travel And Adventure

Jules Verne was a French author who wrote science fiction novels in the 19th century. He is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of science fiction and is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne was a pioneer in the genre of science fiction and his influence has been felt in literature and other media even to this day. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jules Verne on life, sea, travel.

Top 10 Jules Verne Quotes

1. We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
2. 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.
3. Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
4. He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
5. How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
6. Anything you can imagine you can make real.
7. 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.
8. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
9. I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
10. An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

Jules Verne Short Quotes

• Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
• Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
• The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
• I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
• A scholar has to know a little of everything.
• As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.
• What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
• Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
• Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
• I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Jules Verne Quotes About 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. — Jules Verne

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken. — Jules Verne

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 — Jules Verne

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. — Jules Verne

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? — Jules Verne

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change. — Jules Verne

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? — Jules Verne

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

Jules Verne Quotes About Sea

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

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? — Jules Verne

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. — Jules Verne

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed — Jules Verne

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! — Jules Verne

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

Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free! — Jules Verne

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. — Jules Verne

Jules Verne Quotes About Travel

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

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions. — Jules Verne

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

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! — Jules Verne

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

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

You will travel in a Land of Marvels — Jules Verne

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires. — Jules Verne

Jules Verne Quotes About Science

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey. — Jules Verne

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery. — Jules Verne

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

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

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

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. — Jules Verne

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. — Jules Verne

Jules Verne Quotes About Imagination

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. — Jules Verne

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

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt. — Jules Verne

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! — Jules Verne

Anything a man can imagine, another can create — Jules Verne

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

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

Jules Verne Quotes About Earth

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! — Jules Verne

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. — Jules Verne

I repeat that 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. — Jules Verne

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men. — Jules Verne

It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover. — Jules Verne

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. — Jules Verne

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth. — Jules Verne

To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe. — Jules Verne

The earth does not need new continents, but new men. — Jules Verne

Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that. — Jules Verne

Jules Verne Quotes About Nature

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

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. — Jules Verne

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. — Jules Verne

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense! — Jules Verne

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts. — Jules Verne

Jules Verne Quotes About People

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

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. — Jules Verne

In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned. — Jules Verne

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses. — Jules Verne

Jules Verne Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same. — Jules Verne

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland — Jules Verne

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. — Jules Verne

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge. — Jules Verne

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. — Jules Verne

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! — Jules Verne

....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily. — Jules Verne

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand. — Jules Verne

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 — Jules Verne

I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers. — Jules Verne

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted. — Jules Verne

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

There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank. — Jules Verne

I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you — Jules Verne

What one man can think, another man can do. — Jules Verne

With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia? — Jules Verne

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished. — Jules Verne

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? — Jules Verne

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages? — Jules Verne

When one has taken root, one puts out branches. — Jules Verne

He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days — Jules Verne

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

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered. — Jules Verne

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. — Jules Verne

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. — Jules Verne

At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other. — Jules Verne

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand. — Jules Verne

One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes. — Jules Verne

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. — Jules Verne

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

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

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

One's native land! There should one live! There die! — 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! — Jules Verne

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words. — Jules Verne

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets. — Jules Verne

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

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

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it. — Jules Verne

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world. — Jules Verne

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

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

It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair. — Jules Verne

You're never rich enough if you can be richer. — Jules Verne

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

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

The wisest man may be a blind father. — Jules Verne

I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air. — Jules Verne

Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. — Jules Verne

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it. — Jules Verne

Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat. — Jules Verne

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. — Jules Verne

Liberty is worth paying for. — Jules Verne

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence. — Jules Verne

What I'd like to be above all is a writer. — Jules Verne

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced. — Jules Verne

Life Lessons by Jules Verne

1. Jules Verne teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult they may seem. He also encourages us to explore the world and to never stop learning. Finally, he reminds us that we can always find adventure and excitement in the everyday.