Roger Bacon is credited with this quote although I have to say I have not found what book it is taken from. Roger Bacon was an...
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom
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“A language does not become fixed…” Victor Hugo
Cromwell is a play by Victor Hugo that was published in 1827. Its distinctive feature is that it is better known for its preface...
A world in which only one language would be spoken would be a world of terrible loneliness.
This is a quote by Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009), a French anthropologist and ethnologist, member of the French Academy (Académie...
He who learns a new language acquires a new soul
This quote is often attributed to the Spanish poet and 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature Juan Rámon Jiménez. Since I like to make sure...
“All languages are beautiful…”, A Quote from Jean-Marie Adiaffi
This is a quotation taken from "The Identity Card", a book first published in French in 1980. The author Jean-Marie Adiaffi (1941 –...