50 Amazing Quotes About Language Learning [With Phone Wallpapers!]

Here are 50 inspiring and thoughtful quotes all about language learning.

From George Carlin to Nelson Mandela to proverbs all around the world. There is sure to be a quote about language learning in here that will motivate you in your studies 🙂

Included with each quote is also a simple phone wallpaper that you can download.

Enjoy these quotes and enjoy your language studies!!

P.S – if you need even more inspiration and motivation for language learning, check out the top 50 benefits of language learning here! It is incredible how beneficial language learning is!!


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

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery – Amy Chua --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

2.) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere – Chinese Proverb

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere – Chinese Proverb --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

3.) Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world – Rumi

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world – Rumi --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

4.) Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war – Arab Proverb

Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war – Arab Proverb --- Language learning quotes phone wallpaper

5.) Laughter is the language of the soul – Pablo Neruda

Laughter is the language of the soul. - Pablo Neruda --- Language learning quotes phone wallpaper

6.) To have another language is to possess a second soul – Charlemagne

To have another language is to possess a second soul - Charlemagne --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

7.) Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about – Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about - Benjamin Lee Whorf --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

8.) 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 - Samuel Johnson --- language learning phone wallpaper

9.) A new language is a new life – Persian Proverb

A new language is a new life - Persian Proverb --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

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

A different language is a different vision of life - Federico Fellini --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

11.) You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once – Czech Proverb

You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once - Czech Proverb --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

12.) The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages – Roger Bacon

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages - Roger Bacon --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

13.) 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

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 --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

14.) Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides – Rita Mae Brown

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides - Rita Mae Brown --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

15.) A man who knows two languages is worth two men – French proverb

A man who knows two languages is worth two men - French proverb --- language learning quote phone wallpaper

16.) With languages, you are at home anywhere – Edward De Waal

With languages, you are at home anywhere - Edward De Waal --- language learning quote phone wallpaper

17.) Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom – Roger Bacon

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom - Roger Bacon --- language learning quote phone wallpaper

18.) The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue – Munia Khan

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue - Munia Khan --- language learning quote phone wallpaper

19.) As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue – Roger Ascham

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue - Roger Ascham --- language learning quote phone wallpaper

20.) One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people – Turkish proverb

21.) Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift – Frank Smith

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift - Frank Smith --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

22.) Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone - Ralph Waldo Emerson --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

23.) You can never understand one language until you understand at least two – Geoffrey Willans

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two - Geoffrey Willans --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

24.) Change your language and you change your thoughts – Karl Albrecht

Change your language and you change your thoughts - Karl Albrecht --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

25.) A foreign language is like a frail, delicate muscle. If you do not use it, it weakens – Jhumpa Lahiri

A foreign language is like a frail, delicate muscle. If you do not use it, it weakens - Jhumpa Lahiri --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

26.) Language is wine upon the lips – Virginia Woolf

Language is wine upon the lips - Virginia Woolf --- language learning quote phone wallpaper

27.) If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world - Ludwig Wittgenstein --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

28.) 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 road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going - Rita Mae Brown --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

29.) Learn a new language and get a new soul – Czech Proverb

Learn a new language and get a new soul - Czech Proverb --- language learning quotes phone wallpapers

30.) Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn --- language learning quotes phone wallpapers

31.) Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things – Flora Lewis

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things - Flora Lewis --- language learning quotes phone wallpapers

32.) A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language – Gaston Bachelard

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language - Gaston Bachelard --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

33.) One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way – Frank Smith

One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way - Frank Smith --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

34.) We should learn languages because language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly – Kató Lomb

We should learn languages because language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly - Kató Lomb --- language learning quote phone wallpaper

35.) The most intimate temper of a people, its deepest soul, is above all in its language – Jules Michelet

The most intimate temper of a people, its deepest soul, is above all in its language - Jules Michelet - language learning quotes phone wallpapers

36.) I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities – Elif Safak

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities - Elif Safak --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

37.) To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world – Chinese Proverb

To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world - Chinese Proverb --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

38.) Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious – Alan Moore

Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious - Alan Moore --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

39.) Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow - Oliver Wendell Holmes --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

40.) He who knows no foreign languages know nothing of his own – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who knows no foreign languages know nothing of his own - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

41.) Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye – William Gibson

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye – William Gibson --- language learning quotes phone wallpapers

42.) It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly – Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly - Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve --- language learning quotes phone wallpapers

43.) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere – Chinese Proverb

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere - Chinese Proverb --- language learning quote phone wallpaper

44.) The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas – Victor Hugo

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas - Victor Hugo --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

45.) The limits of my language are the limits of my world – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of my language are the limits of my world - Ludwig Wittgenstein --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

46.) Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language – Frank Smith

Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language - Frank Smith --- language learning quotes phone wallpapers

47.) 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

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 --- language learning quote phone wallpaper

48.) Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms – Penelope Lively

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms - Penelope Lively --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

49.) Everyone smiles in the same language – George Carlin

Everyone smiles in the same language - George Carlin --- language learning quotes phone wallpaper

50.) To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture – Frantz Fanon

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture - Frantz Fanon --- language learning quotes phone wallpapers

I hope you found a great new phone wallpaper and some language learning motivation here!

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