Foreign language Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

— Bill Gates

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He who knows no foreign language knows nothing of his own”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

— Kató Lomb

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

— Gavin Esler

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

— Anton Chekhov

To learn any foreign language first you need to fall in love with it.

— Svetlana Shchedrina | LuckyOptimistcom

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

— Kató Lomb

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a…

— Max von Sydow

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

— Ned Rorem

I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.

— Jodie Comer