
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart”
– politician Nelson Mandela
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things”
– journalist Flora Lewis
“Language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about”
– linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world”
– philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein
