Chance Quote by Neil Simon

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in…

— Michael Gove

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English…

— Tupac Shakur

“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.”

— Munia Khan

When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had…

— Nick Offerman

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also…

— Peter Høeg

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

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

— Bill Gates

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort,…

— Michio Kaku