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Letter "T" » their own language
«The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
cover, discovers, inherent, learns, psychological, strict, stricter, strictest, their own language, The Goal, unveil, unveiled, unveiling, unveils
«If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Language,
Reading
| Keywords:
admitted, stress, their own language
«An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
efforts, enable, express, identifies, identify, identifying, masteries, mastery, prepare, rhythm, rhythm and, their own language
«People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as ''exotic'' but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
businessmen, classified, classify, decent, Diplomats, exotic, futures, Human dignity, human voice, languages, mastery, pronounce, spell, standard, their own language, very much
«Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.»
«The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| Keywords:
all ages, British, buckets, classic, collection, immense, languages, Modern Age, Modern English, obsolete, pools, repair, rill, scantiest, scanty, sequester, sequestered, swell, their own language, The Modern Age, undefiled, volumes, wherewith
«Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Culture,
Knowledge,
Language,
Travel
| Keywords:
foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, knows, know nothing, languages, languages of, of their own, Other languages, Their language, their own language
«Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
entirely, forthwith, Frenchmen, their own language, translate
«If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ears, language, listening, speaks, spoken language, their own language
«In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Did, French, idiots, language, languages of, making, never, Other languages, own, Paris, simply, speaking in, speaks in, speak up, spoke, spoken language, stared, stares, succeed, their, Their language, their own language, Them, they, The Idiot, those, understand, when
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