George Santayana Quotes

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.

Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.

It's God's job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less.

What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.