Learning a language quotes
Teaching English abroad and Learning a new language is complicated, but it is also something a lot of people are in love with. To give you an extra motivation we want to share with you these 20 famous quotes about learning languages.
- “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The conquest of learning is achieve through the knowledge of languages.” – Roger Bacon
- “To have another language is to possess a second soul.” – Charlemagne
- “The limits of my language are the limits of my world” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “A different language is a different vision of life.” – Federico Fellini
- “A man who knows two languages is worth two men.” – French Proverb
- “Change your language and you change your thoughts.” – Karl Albrecht
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” – Frank Smith
- “The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in this ideas.” – Victor Hugo
- “It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brail strengthen as a result of language learning.” – Michael Gove
- “Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
- “With languages, you are at home everywhere.” – Edward De Waal
- “Every language is a temple, in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.” – Giles Lytton Strachey
- “Language is wine upon the lips.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
