A Quote by Mark Twain

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.

Timothy Garton Ash

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

Louise Erdrich

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

L. Frank Baum

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

Confucius

I try to stay out of my kids' way and kind of just let them discover things for themselves. Our job as parents is more to keep other people out of their way, so they're free to discover what works for them on their own.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

Claudio Ranieri

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

Miles Davis

Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in the act of penetrating the other person, I find myself, I discover myself, I discover us both, I discover man.

Erich Fromm

Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In fact, you'll discover that you will have an advantage if you know more of them!

Bernice Johnson Reagon

I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves—and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.

Spencer W. Kimball

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.