Columbus Quote by George Santayana

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

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

— Louise Erdrich

Columbus gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

— W. L. George

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Margot Asquith

“Columbus therefore cheated on his calculations, as the examining faculty of the University of Salamanca quite correctly pointed out. He used the smallest possible…

— Carl Sagan

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

— Kevin Brockmeier

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

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