Quotes About Language

In most cases, Joanne says, we would have to stop talking about "mental health"—which conjures pictures of brain scans and defective synapses—and start talking about "emotional health." "Why do we call it mental health?" she asked me. "Because we want to scientize it. We want to make it sound scientific. But it's our emotions.

A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of his own.

How can I not be? How can you not be? We are after all. –– Not be! What does that mean? It is only a word, a mere sound, which stirs nothing in me.

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

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

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

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.

Chi non conosce le lingue straniere non conosce nulla della propria.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.

Anyone that doesn't know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

Poetry is a necessity of life.

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.