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

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— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.”
— Geoffrey Willans

“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.”
— Frank Smith

William Butler Yeats: Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Language is the archives of history.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a
stone

Samuel Johnson: I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees
of nations.

Samuel Johnson: I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees
of nations.

Lily Tomlin: Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.