Quotes about language learning

Here you will find a collection of quotes about language, language learning, and other language related quotes.


"You live a new life for every new language you speak.  If you know
only one language, you live only once."
  - Czech proverb


"A different language is a different vision of life." - Federico Fellini

                                               
"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one
language." - Ezra Pound
                                            

"
You can't see other people's point of view when you have only
one language." - Frank Smith


"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat
different world." - Ludwig Wittgenstein


“To have another language is to posses a second soul.”  - Charlemagne


"A different language is a different vision of life." - Federico Fellini


"A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of
his own." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into
yours without surgery." - Mark Amidon


"Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as
its language." - Wilhelm von Humboldt


"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


"Language embodies the intellectual wealth of the people
who use it." - Kenneth Hale


"Those who know no foreign language knows nothing of their
mother tongue." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe