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Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

[S]tudy has never been a burden for me but always an inexhaustible source of joy.

Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop.

There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas.

Knowledge - like a nail - is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe.

[B]ooks, which can be consulted at any time, questioned again and again, and read into scraps, cannot be rivaled as a language-learning tool.

... I never looked for or found national differences in the various places of the world, only common features - eternal human nature.

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on.

He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.

[T]he time spent on language learning is lost unless it reaches a certain - daily and weekly - concentration.

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

[R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine.