Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 475 authors

Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly… — Daniel C. Peterson
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible… — Henry Home, Lord Kames
At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages. — Cullen Murphy
Love will find its way through all languages on its own. — Rumi
The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms. — Frank Griswold
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once… — Richard Stallman
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers… — Russell Means
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent… — Noam Chomsky
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are… — George Washington Carver
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all. — George Eliot
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom. — Roger Bacon
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,… — Mark Twain
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. — Victor Hugo
A man who can speak two languages is worth two men. — Napoleon Hill
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be… — Samuel Johnson
A thing well said will be wit in all languages. — John Dryden
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. — Miguel de Cervantes

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