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.

1. “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2. “The conquest of learning is achieve through the knowledge of languages.” – Roger Bacon

3. “To have another language is to possess a second soul.” – Charlemagne

4. “The limits of my language are the limits of my world” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

5. “A different language is a different vision of life.” – Federico Fellini

6. “A man who knows two languages is worth two men.” – French Proverb

7. “Change your language and you change your thoughts.” – Karl Albrecht

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

12. “One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” – Frank Smith

13. “The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in this ideas.” – Victor Hugo

14. “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

15. “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

16. “With languages, you are at home everywhere.” – Edward De Waal

17. “Every language is a temple, in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

18. “Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.” – Giles Lytton Strachey

19. “Language is wine upon the lips.” – Virginia Woolf

20. “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