Columbus Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg Download Open image “The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Columbus Discovery Made
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe. — W. L. George Copy Share Image
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus. — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. — James Joyee Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children. — David R. Ellis Copy Share Image
We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt,… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
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