Top 30 Quotes About Knowing More Than One Language
#1. We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
Nelly Sachs
#2. The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language ...
Martha N. Beck
#3. One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.
Ron Jeffries
#4. This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.
Joan Barfoot
#5. By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
Octavio Paz
#6. most great truths are expressed in the common language of life; some understand them, but most people utter them without knowing how much they mean.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
#7. My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.
Pete Wentz
#8. I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.
Peter Cameron
#9. Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.
Melina Marchetta
#10. To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
George Eliot
#11. Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
James Merrill
#12. 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
#13. Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
Jonathan Swift
#14. There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.
Jules Verne
#15. When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.
Ron Jeffries
#16. It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.
Billy Collins
#17. The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.
Kitty Burns Florey
#18. Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#19. I'm completely at ease on a set. I'm pretty comfortable most places, but hitting the mark and knowing set etiquette and understanding cameras and lenses are second nature. It's a language I've spoken for years.
Zoe Bell
#20. The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.
Milton H. Erickson
#21. Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.
Richard Rohr
#22. The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
Ned Rorem
#23. Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life ...
Jane Hirshfield
#24. Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.
Denis Donoghue
#25. Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
Mignon McLaughlin
#27. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Alan Perlis
#28. Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process
of knowing by means of language.
Mark Doty
#29. Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.
Kato Lomb
#30. Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language," said Conseil "or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language?
Jules Verne
