Columbus Quote by 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

Columbus gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

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

— Louise Erdrich

“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

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

— Pedro Domingos

“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

The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth,…

— Matt Taibbi

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

— Margot Asquith

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

— James Joyee

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

Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films,…

— Wilma Mankiller