Language Learning Quotes

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one 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.

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

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

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

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

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

Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A different language is a different vision of life.

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

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.

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

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

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

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

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

Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

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.

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

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

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Let your memory be your travel bag.

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

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

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

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.