25 Best Quotes for Columbus Day

Hello, QuotesRomantic Family. Many countries in the New World and elsewhere officially celebrate as a holiday the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, which happened on October 12, 1492. These holidays have been celebrated unofficially since the late 18th century and officially in various areas since the early 20th century. This holiday has also met with a long history of opposition: several regions in the United States either refuse to observe it or celebrate on that date a different event entirely, because of the disastrous effects of Columbus discovering land that was already inhabited with the sole purpose of exploiting the land and its people.

25 Best Quotes for Columbus Day

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

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

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

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

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.  ~James Joyce

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

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

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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