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?
JULES VERNEIt’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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?
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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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.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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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.
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