Creativity Quote by Barbara Zurer Pearson

“Divergent thinking is almost always seen as a gift rather than an acquired and developed skill. But this is far from the truth: divergent…

— Dan Rothstein

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

— Roman Jakobson

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“Examining languages as profoundly different systems of ways of thinking, we can expect from the presumed replacement in the future of the diversity of…

— Oleksander Potebnja

“how bilingualism has been shown to benefit • bilingual children’s precocious knowledge of language, • their enhanced cognitive development in general, and • the…

— Barbara Zurer Pearson

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

— Tom Tancredo

“Although it permits the use of students’ native language “to clarify key concepts,” this weak form of bilingual instruction has no support in educational…

— James Crawford

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

— James Gleick

“Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think “harder” via different thought processes.”

— Pearl Zhu

It's really natural for me to write bilingually.

— Kali Uchis

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language…

— David Crystal

People say that the brain is a muscle and that one of the best exercises for any brain is learning another language and to…

— Demian Bichir