Certain Quote by Leo Tolstoy

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

— John Hall Wheelock

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were,…

— Helen Keller

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

— Zoe Saldana

“There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language…

— Peter Farb

“The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if he does…

— Moshe Seidel

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No…

— Byron Katie

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants,…

— Augustus William Hare

At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious…

— Maria Montessori

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and…

— Linda Darling-Hammond

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers