"The sum of human

wisdom is not
contained in any one
language."

Ezra Pound, in the ABC of Reading

(1885 – 1972), American poet
"The direction in which
education starts a man
will determine his
future life."
 Plato (427 BC-347 BC)
Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician

"Through learning language,

we learn about culture.
Through learning about culture,
we learn respect for others.
Through learning respect for others,
we can hope for peace."
 "A rose, maybe, is a rose,
but it is not une rose, is not
eine Rose, but multiple
ways of viewing and talking
about roses."
 Claire Kramsch
Context and Culture in Language Teaching,
Oxford University Press, 1993.

"Give your
mind a chance to
travel through foreign
languages."

Neil Simon
American playwright and screenwriter
 "Die Sprache eines
Volkes ist seine Seele."

("The language of a people is its

soul.")
 Johann Gottlieb Fichte
(1762 – 1814), German philosopher

"El que habla dos

lenguas vale por dos."

("The person who speaks two

languages
 is worth two.")

Spanish quote

"You can't
see other people's
point of view when you
 have only one
language."

Frank Smith
American psycholinguist
"I wish life was not so short,"
he thought. "Languages take
such a time, and so do all the
things one wants to know
about."

J.R.R. Tolkien
(1892-1973), English Professor &
author of the
 "Hobbit," "Lord of the Rings"

"The real voyage of

discovery consists not
in seeing new lands
but in seeing with new
eyes."
 Marcel Proust
(1871-1922), French novelist

“If you talk to a man in a

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

Nelson Mandela
also ex President of South Africa
more than 250 awards, including Nobel
Peace Prize
 “To have another
language is to posses
a second soul.”

Charlemagne
Charles the Great
 (742 – 814) King of the Franks ,
Emperor of the Romans

"A different language

is a different vision of
life."
 Federico Fellini
(1920 -1993), Italian movie director

"You should know

at least three languages ....
think and dream in at least
three languages...""
 Bedri Rahmi
(1913 – 1975) Turkish poet & artist