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Man Quotes by Jules Verne
- Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
- Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
- Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than…
- Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
- Man is never perfect nor contented.
- But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
- The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man…
- On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is…
- Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
- 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…
- 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,…
- What one man can think, another man can do.
- In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
- I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
- It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
- An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
- If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
- Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.
- The wisest man may be a blind father.
- When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.
- Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and…
- It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will…
- Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its…
- A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
- You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
More Man Quotes
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle