Discovery quotes

Embark on an enlightening journey of self-discovery with our collection of profound quotes, igniting your curiosity and inspiring personal growth.

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Christopher Columbus

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

- Christopher Columbus

Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.

- Christopher Columbus

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

- Christopher Columbus

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

- Christopher Columbus

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. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice. He lacks nothing that is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him.

- Christopher Columbus

Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams.

- Christopher Columbus

It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.

- Christopher Columbus

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

- Christopher Columbus

I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.

- Christopher Columbus

Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

- 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

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

- Christopher Columbus

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

- Luc Montagnier

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

- Robert Falcon Scott

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

- James Joyce

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

- Martin Lewis Perl

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

- Luc Montagnier

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

- Howard Carter

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

- Robert Falcon Scott