Different languages Quote by Elif Batuman

Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.

— Peter Lerangis

“I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt,…

— Peter Cameron

“As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the…

— Joan Didion

“Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those…

— Christopher Barzak

“how both Armenian and Turkish stories tended to start with the same preamble: Once there was, once there wasn’t …”

— Elif Shafak

“For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind.”

— Nynke Visser

“This, I found, was what happened so often to me in Turkey: You’re learning about a country, you have read books, and so you…

— Suzy Hansen

“She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Not only does language reflect a person’s thinking, but it also reinforces a person’s thinking.”

— Tim Sanders

“You are either Ataturk's turk or Erdogan's turk, you cannot be both.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The ability to learn is one thing, the ability to think is something totally different”

— Clive Barry

“We can only think in a language that we master.”

— don Jose Ruiz