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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8.) I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations – Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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