Paul Bettany Quotes

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

You couldn't have human society without language.

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Languages are the keys of science.

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

As humans we speak one language.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.