Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbuswas an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the European colonization of the New World...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth31 October 1451
CityGenoa, Italy
CountryItaly
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.
The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and] herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed. The first certain reference in history to smoking tobacco.
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
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.
Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.
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.
It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.
Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams...
Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.
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.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.
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.