413 Quotes by Jules Verne

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

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.

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

Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?

This is what happens when you leave home. You meet... people.

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.

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