Columbus Quotes

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Raphael paints wisdom Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. View quote
James Joyce
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. View quote
Arthur Goldberg
O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art. View quote
George Santayana
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. View quote
Ken Kesey
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide? View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians. View quote
Bertrand Russell
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. View quote
Carl Sagan
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. (Louise Erdrich)
In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus -- 'one when he was a boy and one when he was a man.' View quote
Mark Twain
Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children. View quote
David R. Ellis
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater. View quote
Bob Gunton
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. View quote
Charles Kendall Adams
This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail. View quote
Donald Cram
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. View quote
Ella Maillart
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. View quote
Ethel Waters
IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones. View quote
Gary Vaynerchuk
Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on. (Stockwell Day)
Scholars still debate whether Columbus brought syphilis to the New World or vice versa. But it cannot be doubted that the 2008 world meltdown carries on its label the words Made in America. View quote
Paul Samuelson
Columbus was not the first one to discover America, only the first to patent it. View quote
Andrzej Majewski
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Colonial had been the thing to be As long as the great issue was to see What country'd be the one to dominate By character, by tongue, by native trait, The new world Christopher Columbus found. The French, the Spanish, and the Dutch were downed And counted out. Heroic deeds were done. Elizabeth the First and England won. Now came on a new order of the ages That in the Latin of our founding sages (Is it not written on the dollar bill We carry in our purse and pocket still?) View quote
Robert Frost