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Language Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
- Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
- Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
- You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.
- He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
- Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz…
- Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
- Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
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