Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 473 authors

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all… — Huston Smith
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the… — Michelle Hunziker
Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and… — Tupac Shakur
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case,… — Thomas Reid
Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we… — Bertrand Meyer
All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one… — Henri Bergson
I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are… — Albert Einstein
I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. — Bill Gates
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages. — Itzhak Perlman
Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages. — Neil Simon
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work… — Thomas Huxley
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not… — Ferdinand de Saussure
I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely. — El Anatsui
With languages, you are at home anywhere — Edmund de Waal
Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question:… — Roy H. Williams
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign… — Lawrence Venuti
My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages,… — Anders Hejlsberg

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