Quotes and Sayings about Languages

Quotes and Sayings about Languages

He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
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German literacy ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
Every language has its own music.
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
Language - a form of organized stutter.

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