Inspirational Quotes for Language Learners

❝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

❝One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.❞
‒Frank Smith

 “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.❞

‒Ludwig Wittgenstein

❝Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.❞
‒Sarah Caldwell

❝Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.❞
‒Chinese Proverb

❝You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.❞
‒Geoffrey Willans

❝To have another language is to possess a second soul.❞
‒Charlemagne

❝Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.❞
‒Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞
‒Rita Mae Brown

❝Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.❞
‒Oliver Wendell Holmes

To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.

– Chinese Proverb

Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war.

– Arab Proverb

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery. – Amy Chua

With languages, you are at home anywhere.

 – Edward De Waal

A different language is a different vision of life. – Federico Fellini

A man who knows two languages is worth two men. ‒ French Proverb

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom. ‒ Roger Bacon