Quotes on Foreign Language

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all religions - not only to reach God but to reach each other.

A different language is a different vision of life.

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

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

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.

Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.