Language Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Being that can be understood is language.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

— Anonymous

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

— Petr Cech

To understand and be understood is to be free.

— Daniel Johnston

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to…

— Frantz Fanon

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

— Lobsang Tenzin

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets…

— Fred Alan Wolf

“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'…

— Sy Montgomery

To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.

— Margaret Wander Bonanno

“Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time…

— Werner Karl Heisenberg

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

— Novalis