Another world Quote by George Santayana

He 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 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

“under the same cross that Christopher Columbus’s three caravels crossed the Atlantic to the New World.”

— Michael Baigent

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

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

“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

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

— James Joyee

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

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Margot Asquith

Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got…

— Ronald Reagan

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

— Henry David Thoreau