Universal language Quote by Jules Verne

“I discovered that the predisposition for languages is as mysterious as the inclination of certain people for mathematics or music and has nothing to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because…

— W. G. Sebald

“It takes more than language to know what language can know.”

— Barry Allen

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

— Ron Jeffries

“What does it matter if you can speak two or more languages if you have nothing original to say in any language?”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Kató Lomb

“You can't see other's point of view when you have only one language.”

— Frank Smith

“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry or…

— Nelson Mandela

“There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

— Arca