Educated Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

— Victor Hugo

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

— Louis Kronenberger

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any…

— Arthur Miller

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

— George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

— Evelyn Waugh

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

— Mortimer Adler

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

— Martin Jacques

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

— Petr Cech

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec