Cristoforo Colombo (1451–1506) Explorer, navigator, and colonizer
Actually by André Gide.
Misattributed
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
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Often misquoted as "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
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Variant: Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Source: Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925)
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Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) king of Poland
"Reflections on different Subjects of Morality, in The Universal Magazine (1765), p. 119.