Columbus Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

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

— Pedro Domingos

“Every one of us has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ”

— Anonymous

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

— Michael Baigent

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

— Louise Erdrich

“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 saved the Indians from themselves.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Christopher Columbus said we cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.”

— Anonymous

“We catch ourselves thinking, in the bitterness that can accompany the unexpected sound of an aluminum can bending underfoot, that it would have been…

— Robert Adams

“Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.”

— Amit Ray

“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