Top 1200 Learning Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.

It took a pretty drastic moment to shift my thinking towards visual arts. I got to a moment in my writing career when I wasn't trusting the language, I was really not trusting the written language, the English language. How do you work with a material that you don't have trust in? I had to step away from it and find another way of articulating and I had to do it without words.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

Language uses us as much as we use language.

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

The language surrounding cancer is not language I'm particularly comfortable with.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.

I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

To be at the forefront of something that can spark a major change as far as kids going to an HBCU and learning about our history and learning about our culture and learning about our ancestors, where we came from - that's a big thing, that's a really big thing.

I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

I didn't have Marathi as a language in school. My second language was French.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.