Columbus Quote by Edmund Arthur Helps

“Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.”

— José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith…

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty wilderness, but into a world which in some places was as densely populated as…

— Howard Zinn

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the…

— Bill Nye

Columbus gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

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

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

“Let’s assume it was Christopher Columbus’s “destiny” to discover the New World, and let’s pretend he was consciously aware of that fact. What possible…

— Chuck Klosterman

“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.”

— Pedro Domingos

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

— Anonymous

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded…

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Anonymous