Quotes About Knowing Languages

#1. My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

Kato Lomb

#2. The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

Jane Asher

#3. There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.

Jules Verne

#4. I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

Juliana Hatfield

#5. To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

George Eliot

#6. Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear ... from my future Kids' Funny Business.

Ivan Stoikov

#7. You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

Apollonius Of Tyana