50 Quotes About Language That Speaks To Your Soul
Looking for the best quotes about language? These 50 epic language quotes will truly speak to your soul via language.
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So without further ado, here are the 50 quotes about language – embrace these and enjoy!
QUOTES ABOUT LANGUAGE
1 – Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. Benjamin Lee Whorf
2 – To have another language is to possess a second soul. Charlemagne
3 – A different language is a different vision of life. Federico Fellini
4 -A man who knows two languages is worth two men. French Proverb
5 – The limits of my language are the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein
6 – If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela
7- With languages, you are at home anywhere. Edward De Waal
8 – To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world. Chinese Proverb
9 – Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world. Rumi
10 – Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. Alan Moore
QUOTES ABOUT LANGUAGE
11 – Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
12 – Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. Dejan Stojanovic
13 – The most intimate temper of a people, its deepest soul, is above all in its language. Jules Michelet
14 – 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
15 – Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. Benjamin Lee Whorf
16 – Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Flora Lewis
17- You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. Geoffrey Willans
18 – We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language. Mal Pancoast
19 – Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. Rita Mae Brown
20 – You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once. Czech Proverb
QUOTES ABOUT LANGUAGE
21 – We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects. Richard Riley
22 – Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom. Roger Bacon
23 – Any time you think some other language is strange, remember that yours is just as strange, you’re just used to it.
24 -A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. Gaston Bachelard
25 – One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way. Frank Smith
26 – To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world. Chinese Proverb
27- Learning another language is like becoming another person. Haruki Murakami
28 – We should learn languages because language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly. Kató Lomb
29 – Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Flora Lewis
30 – Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb
QUOTES ABOUT LANGUAGE
31 – A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language. Noam Chomsky
32 – Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb
33 – 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
34 – One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way. Frank Smith
35 – Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. William Gibson
36 – Once upon a time there were two countries at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met.
To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends halfway, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war. – Vera Nazarian
37- With languages, you are at home anywhere. Edward De Waal
38 – The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. Victor Hugo
39 – It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly. Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
40 – Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language. Frank Smith
QUOTES ABOUT LANGUAGE
41 – Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom. Roger Bacon
42 – Change your language and you change your thoughts. Karl Albrecht
43 – Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war. Arab Proverb
44 – A new language is a new life. Persian Proverb
45 -Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Flora Lewis
46 – A foreign language is like a frail, delicate muscle. If you do not use it, it weakens. Jhumpa Lahiri
47- He who knows no foreign languages know nothing of his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
48 – Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Oliver Wendell Holmes
49 – I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities. Elif Safak
50 – Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery. Amy Chua
BONUS: “Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morle
BONUS: Friendliness is a language that the doves can hear and the blind can read. Mark Twain
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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