The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
JULES VERNEBefore all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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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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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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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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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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.
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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