Chinese Language Quotes:

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

topic: Leadership, Travel, Crazy, Inspirational Learning, Language And Communication

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

- Confucius

topic: Education, Practice, Study, Confucianism, Chinese Language

I must stick with Chinese language films.

- Zhang Yimou

topic: Chinese, Sticks, Language, Chinese Language

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

- Eric Allin Cornell

topic: Character, Interesting, Chinese, Chinese Language, Proficiency

If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

- Bruno Zheng Wu

topic: Chinese, Watches, Language, Subtitles, Chinese Language

A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.

- Eric A. Havelock

source: "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.

topic: Greek, Chinese, Doe, Chinese Language, Uncharted Territory

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

- Ai Weiwei

topic: Character, Chinese, Language, 140 Character, Chinese Language

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

- Hu Shih

topic: Years, Chinese, Students, Chinese Language

Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.

- Ion Keith-Falconer

topic: Thinking, Chinese, Devil, Chinese Language

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

- Gish Jen

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: People, Chinese, Needs, Chinese Language