The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.
It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.