Quote

As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.

Jules Verne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Jules Gabriel Verne
Difficulty
Serious
Made
Ferguson
Replied
Difficulties
Overcome
Tone
Overcoming

More quotes by Jules Verne

Image
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
Jules Verne
Image
Anything you can imagine you can make real.
Jules Verne
Image
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
Image
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
Jules Verne
Image
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
Image
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
Jules Verne
Image
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
Jules Verne
Image
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
Jules Verne
Image
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
Image
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Jules Verne
Image
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
Image
Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
Jules Verne
Image
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
Image
....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
Image
Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. My dear uncle- I began. Nor you either, he added.
Jules Verne
Image
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne
Image
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
Jules Verne
Image
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules Verne
Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.
Jules Verne
Image
It is certain, exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
Jules Verne