Language Learning Quotes

• Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

  Roger Bacon

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

  Frank Smith

  Learning, Community, Clubs

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• It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

  Michael Gove

  Brain, Language, Cases

  "Michael Gove proposes teaching foreign languages from age five" by Patrick Wintour, Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  Flora Lewis

  Learning, Thinking, German Language

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• He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Learning, Knowing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.293, Courier Corporation

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• The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Doe

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• A different language is a different vision of life.

  Federico Fellini

  Life, Work, Communication

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Inspiring, Graduation, Gratitude

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• The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

  Roger Bacon

  Language, Conquest, Learning Language

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• You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

  Geoffrey Willans

  Inspiration, Learning, German Language

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• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Running, Communication, Inspiration

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Communication, Different, World

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• A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Language Words, Excellence

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  Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Fun, Mean, Broken

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• As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Language Words, Wings

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• Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspiration, Learning, People

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.47, Bantam

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Beauty, Communication, Writing

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Communication, Thinking, Shapes

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• Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Learning

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.259, Ballantine Books

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• Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Important, Culture, Language

  "Language and Identity: An introduction". Book by John Edwards, 2009.

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• I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Communication, Tongue

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 18 September 1773

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• Let your memory be your travel bag.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Travel, Memories, Next Adventure

  "Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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  You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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