A Quote by Geoffrey Willans

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Geoffrey Willans

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Geoffrey Willans
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February 4, 1911 - August 6, 1958

?W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.

Ian Mortimer

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Novalis

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

Khalil Gibran

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Thomas Sowell

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

Herman Melville

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

Beverly Cleary

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

Billy Graham

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

Garth Greenwell

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Spanish is actually my first language, growing up, and I understand the culture. I understand the culture; I understand what the people want.

Henry Cejudo

We can use the romantic relationship as a microcosmic example. Until you really understand the other person and where they're coming from and you understand yourself and how you contribute to things, you can never make that relationship better. And I think sometimes people don't understand how much these things are related.

Christina Ricci

we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

Anton Chekhov

The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.

Emir Kusturica

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

Marilynne Robinson

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

J. C. Ryle

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