Christopher Columbus

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

Christopher Columbus

Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams.

Christopher Columbus

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

Christopher Columbus

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Christopher Columbus

Nothing that results from Human progress is achieved with unanimous consent, and those who are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of others.

Christopher Columbus

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

Christopher Columbus

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. According to some ancient manuscripts 9 is not a prime number, but beyond the distant horizon of the oceans, in the New World that I am going to discover, there are surely lots of them.

Christopher Columbus

A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.

Christopher Columbus

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

An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: ‘Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink.’

Christopher Columbus