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!!


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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