Admire Quote by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

— Anonymous

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

— Louise Erdrich

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.

— Anonymous

It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it. Take my word…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Every one of us has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ”

— Anonymous

Columbus gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him,…

— Bill Cowher

Columbus was an Abraham, for he went out not knowing whither he went. Columbus was a Moses, for he endured as seeing Him who…

— Robert Stuart MacArthur

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

— James Joyee

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

— Edmund Arthur Helps

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith