Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness-…

— Charles Baudelaire

“don’t know about you, but my English isn’t perfect. I hesitate when I’m nervous, I forget precisely the right word every now and again,…

— Benny Lewis

There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God…

— John Bunyan

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh…

— Walt Whitman

Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal…

— John Bunyan

Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think -…

— Adam Gopnik

“I knew I was developing fluency in Spanish language when I started thinking in Spanish!”

— Steven Magee

“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.”

— 2000 National Reading Panel

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

— Mason Cooley

This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person?…

— Muriel Barbery

Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek…

— Reza Aslan

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to…

— Ivan Illich

Digital fluency is about basic skills.

— Julie Sweet

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows that…

— Kory Stamper