But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Christopher Columbus

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Christopher Columbus

A ship in harbor is safe – but that is not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner’s heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. Charles Kendall Adams

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
Christopher Columbus

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don’t get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn’t, somebody else would have and we’d still be here. Big deal.
John Waters

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
Christopher Columbus

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, “Ours.”
Vine Deloria

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher Columbus

He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe.
Lamartine

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
Christopher Columbus

Columbus found a world, and had no chart,
Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.
George Santayana

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
Christopher Columbus

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

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.
Christopher Columbus

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.
Edmund Arthur Helps

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.
Christopher Columbus

Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us.
Edmund Arthur Helps

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
Christopher Columbus

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Arthur Goldberg

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Christopher Columbus

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.
Christopher Columbus

He gave the world another world.
George Santayana

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
Christopher Columbus

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey

The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
Christopher Columbus

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Bobcat Goldthwaite

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
Christopher Columbus

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.
John Fiske

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher Columbus

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
Robert L. Park

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world’s record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument!
Justin Winsor

He leaves in the background of fame all other navigators whose names are written in the priceless annals of discovery.
Emilio Castelar

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
Christopher Columbus

With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man.
Edward Everett

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
Ambrose Bierce

He gained a world; he gave that world
Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!”
Joaquin Miller

He stands in history as the completer of the globe.
John Sterling

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn’t a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
Lee Trevino

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore,
At the rim of a far-flung sky.

He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose.
John George Jones

Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.
Aldous Huxley

Was this his face, and these the finding eyes
That plucked a new world from the rolling seas?
George Edward Woodberry