Learning Language Quotes:

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Communication, Cities, Stones, Language And Communication, Language Culture

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Travel, Inspiration, Communication, International Language, Learning English

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

- Maria Montessori

topic: Teaching, Men, Language, Spoken Language, Language Culture

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

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

topic: Communication, Different, World, Spoken Language, Language And Communication

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

topic: Learning, Community, Clubs, Learning Language, Language Learning

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

- Geoffrey Willans

topic: Learning, Two, Language, Learning Language, Language Learning

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

- Roger Bacon

topic: Inspirational, Education, Wisdom, Language Acquisition, Learning Language

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Country, Travel, Memories, Eat Your Heart, Inspirational Vacation

A different language is a different vision of life.

- Federico Fellini

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

topic: Life, Work, Communication, Inspirational Learning, Language Acquisition

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Fun, Mean, Broken, Learning English, Learning Language

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Self Determination, Try Again

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

topic: Inspiring, Graduation, Gratitude, Inspirational Learning, Learning English

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

topic: Inspiration, Learning, Knowing, Learning Language, Language Learning

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Men, Ideas, Doe, Learning Language, Language Learning

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Running, Communication, Inspiration, Inspirational Learning, Language And Communication

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

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

topic: Brain, Language, Cases, Learning Language, Language Learning

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

- Rita Mae Brown

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

topic: Inspiration, Learning, People, Inspirational Learning, Language Culture

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

- Flora Lewis

topic: Learning, Thinking, Different, Learning Language, Language Learning

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

- Roger Ascham

topic: Men, Language Words, Wings, Language Acquisition, Learning Language

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

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

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

topic: Thinking, Shapes, Way, Language Acquisition, Language Culture

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

- Gaston Bachelard

source: "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.

topic: Beauty, Communication, Writing, Language Culture, International Language

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Country, Baby, Witty, Learning Language, Language Learning

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

- Kató Lomb

topic: Knowing, Language, Learning Language, Language Learning, Foreign Language

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

- Roger Bacon

topic: Language, Language Learning, Conquest, Learning Language

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

topic: Inspirational Life, Years, People, Spoken Language, Language Culture

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

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Sorry, Communication, Language, Language And Communication, Language Culture

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

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

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

topic: Important, Culture, Language, Language Culture, Learning Language

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

- Timothy Keller

topic: Baby, Listening, Firsts, Learning Language

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

- Fred Frith

topic: Vocabulary, Doe, Body, Learning Language

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

- Frank Herbert

source: "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "Gowachin Aphorism"; p. 111, 1969.

topic: Training, Language, Delusion, Learning Language

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution. What has happened is that one species has developed, and the genetic structure of this species happens to involve a variety of intricate abstract principles of linguistic organization that, therefore, necessarily constrain every language, and, in fact, create the basis for learning language as a way of organizing experience rather than constituting something learned from experience.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: chomsky.info

topic: Organization, Numbers, World, Learning Language, Constrain

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

- Luis von Ahn

topic: School, People, Proud, Learning Language

Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wandered around in Europe learning languages and writing novels and never led anywhere. And then I got into like journalism in New York as a way to kind of maybe find my way into the field and it wasn't a good fit. It just wasn't right for me.

- Robert Greene

source: Source: dilanka.cc

topic: New York, Book, Writing, Learning Language, Love Literature

Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort of learn how to deal with that kind of stimulation on its own. So that's a very important form of adversity.

- Robert Greene

source: Source: dilanka.cc

topic: Book, Reading, Adversity, Learning Language

To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.

- Robert Greene

source: Source: dilanka.cc

topic: Basketball, Thinking, Practice, Learning Language

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

- Deborah Smith

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Learning Language

I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.

- Lily King

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Real, Virginia, Language, Learning Language

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

- Daniel Tammet

topic: Years, Skills, Long, Social Skills, Learning Language

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

- William Eggleston

topic: Reading, Language, Boring, It Takes Time, Learning Language

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

- Vivien Leigh

topic: Language, Found, Accents, Learning Language