"The distance between the earth and her satellite……" — Jules Verne
"The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon."
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Jules Verne
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151 Quotes by Jules Verne
Jules Verne has 151 quotes on this site.
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand…
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by…
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No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is…
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons…
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after…
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for…
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers…
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature…
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by…
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is…
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any…
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I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.
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I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a…
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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then…
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