Kató Lomb Quotes

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• Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.
• Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.
• The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation,…
• It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed…
• Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.
• Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken…
• My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.
• I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.
• One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.
• Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars,…
• Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.
• Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.
• He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.

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