You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.