I leave you the best phrases of Jules Verne (1828-1905), French writer and playwright, author of works such as Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty thousand leagues of submarine journey and Around the world in eighty days.
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-There is nothing like imagining to create a future, since what is utopia today will be flesh and blood tomorrow.
-It seems wiser to assume the worst from the beginning and let the best come as a surprise.
-If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
-The opportunity that may now seem lost can present itself at the last minute.
-Anything that a man can imagine, other men can make it real.
-There are no impossible obstacles; there are only strong and weak wills.
-Open your eyes wide, look.
-By paying attention to crazy people, great discoveries are made.
-Everything great that has been done has been in the name of exaggerated hopes.
-A superior force can demolish the best of arguments.
-While there is life there is hope.
-The Earth does not need new continents, but new men.
-The future does not worry me; what is hard sometimes is the present.
-As long as the heart beats, while the flesh beats, I cannot understand why a being endowed with will allows himself to be dominated by despair.
-Loneliness, isolation, are painful things and beyond human resistance.
-An energetic man will succeed where an indolent will vegetate and perish.
- Necessity is the teacher who teaches best and from whom lessons are best learned.
-Reality provides us with such romantic events that the imagination could not add anything to it.
-And the flash of her charms surrounds her like the rays of the Sun.
-Life, more intense than on the continents, more exuberant, more infinite, spreading throughout all parts of this ocean, element of death for man.
-When a sage announces a purely speculative discovery to the public, there is never enough prudence.
-How many things have been denied one day, only to become reality the next.
-Science is made of errors; but they are mistakes that are useful to make, because they guide virtue little by little.
- It deserves life to pay for freedom.
-Trains, like time and tides, don't stop for anyone.
-What a great book could be written with what is known. Another much larger one would be written with what is not known.
-With time and thought you can do a good job.
-The future does not worry me; what is hard sometimes is the present.
-We can defy human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
-I am not particularly proud to have written about the automobile, the submarine, the airship, before they were in the domain of scientific realities. When I spoke of them in my books as real things, they were already half made up.
-It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends, and it must be believed that loneliness can quickly destroy reason.
-The man is never perfect, nor sustained.
-The human mind delights in great conceptions of supernatural beings.
-The sea is just the realization of a supernatural and wonderful existence.
-Chess is a game that I was passionate about when I was young, but one day it started to take too long and then I eliminated it.
-The great regret of my life has been the fact that I have never had a place in French literature.
-Go to the dining room, go around the table always looking at its center, and when you have finished the circular walk, you will have walked around yourself, since the view will have traveled all the points of the dining room. Well, the dining room is the sky, the table is the Earth and you are the Moon.
-Civilization never goes backwards, the law of necessity always forces us to go forward.
-Undoubtedly, under the impression of violent pain we all become polyglots.
-Don't think me too optimistic; I know my country, and many others that surround it. But there are signs, there are signs.
-Civilization never goes backwards, the law of necessity always forces us to go forward.
-The whales and I are old acquaintances, and I would not be easily mistaken.
-The humor had overcome science.
-In the memory of all the dead, the chronological differences are erased.
-Those who have the face of rascals have no recourse but to be honest, otherwise they would be arrested.
-Poets are like proverbs: you always find one that contradicts the other.
-What is darkness for you is enlightenment for me.
-Because stopping to be proud of being American or British, if you can boast of being a man.
-Before all teachers, need is the one that is heard the most, and also the one that teaches the best.
-He must have traveled everywhere, at least in spirit.
-Wherever you go, may fortune follow you.
-Dust is nothing more than a thing of the past, and war is as primitive as the human race, something unhappy.
-Although we know sleeping as our best friend, sometimes he is a friend who keeps us waiting.
-We now know that most things in this world can be measured, except the limits of human ambition.
-A scholar should know a little of everything.
-Once the mind allows doubt to enter, the value of the actions performed decreases, the character changes, we forget the past and fear the future.
-What is done for money is done badly.
-A true Englishman does not joke when he is talking about something as serious as a bet.
-I would have exchanged a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water.
-The wisest man could be a blind father.
-It really is very useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
-The soul of flowers is their aroma, and sea flowers, however splendid they are, do not have a soul.
- It can be affirmed that, however reckless the Americans are, when they are prudent there is a good reason for it.
-Anyway, everything has an end, everything dies, even the hunger of people who have not eaten.
- For an eccentric everything is possible, especially when it is English.
-The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power to speak.
-The fog seems to have killed all the gratitude in the hearts of the browsers.
-In Kiel, like anywhere, a day passes one way and another.
-Ah, sir, living in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found. There I do not recognize any teacher! There I am free.
-A minimum well used is enough for everything.
-And while, once you walk, you can go so far that going forward is the only option.
-A friend always sacrifices for the other in friendship.
-If your destiny is rare, it is also sublime.
-If living with style is being eccentric, you must confess that there is something good in eccentricity.
-The music is no longer savored, now it is swallowed.
-I ask for nothing more than to live a hundred more years, in order to remain in your memory longer.
-I dream with my eyes open.
-If at any moment we can perish, then at each moment we can be saved.
-I wanted to be lost, but not lost. If I'm lost, they can still find me.
-Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares.
-Ah! Young women and girls, how incomprehensible are their feminine hearts! When they are not the shyest, they are the bravest creatures.
-It is better for us to see the destination we want to reach, than to see the starting point.
-It was obvious that the matter had to be resolved, and the evasions were unpleasant for me.
-Moving is life; and it is good to have the ability to forget the past and kill the present with continual change.
-We must learn to do everything for others; because that's where the secret to happiness is.
-When you have the approval of science, you can only hear and obey.
Understand that you will never be rich if you do not take advantage of it.
-You better understand the feeling when you are in tune with nature. You breathe it in every way!
-It's our homeland! Where should we live! We must die!
-The truth is that inanimate objects around us exert direct pressure on the brain.
-You are never rich enough if you can be even richer.
-The consequence of inventing machines is that men will be devoured by them.
-I feel like we should always put some art in what we do. It's better that way.
-In the face of the great convulsions of nature, man is powerless.
-Only when you suffer can you really understand.
-Where others have failed, I will not fail.
-One of my goals is to learn more than is absolutely necessary.
-That terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.
-The distance is nothing more than a relative expression, and must end up being reduced to zero.
-Just wait a few minutes, our flashlight will shine and if you like illuminated places, you will be satisfied.
-The future doesn't bother me; sometimes what is difficult is the present.
-The walls were only invented to frustrate scientists. All walls should be off limits.
-There are only some weapons that serve the head. Isn't this the true organization of the force?
-Yes, forgotten by all the others, but not by us.
-The human imagination was soon caught up in the most ridiculous ichthyological fantasies.
-An evil man is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are capable of inspiring it.
-Our principle is that books, instead of getting moldy behind an iron shelf, should be sold out under the eyes of many readers.
-I am the law and I am the judge.
-As for the classification of the fable list, the idea was out of the question.