THEPOWER OF LANGUAGE

10BRILLIANT M I N D S

QUOTES FROM

ACROSS TIME AND HISTORY

“If you talk to a man in a language he

understands, that goes to his head. If you

talk to him in his own language, that goes to

his heart.”

– Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid

revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist

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“You can never understand one

language until you understand at

least two.”

– Geoffrey Willans, English author and journalist

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33“A translation is no

translation, he said, unless it will give

you the music of a poem along with the

words of it.”

– John Millington Synge, Irish poet, prose and travel writer

44“Language is the

road map of a culture. It tells you

where its people come from and where they are

going.”

– Rita Mae Brown, American writer

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55“Writers make

national literature, while translators

make universal literature.”

– José Saramago, Portuguese writer

66“A different language is

a different vision of life.”

– Federico Fellini, Italian filmmaker

“Woe to the makers of literal translations,

who by rendering every word weaken

the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the

letter kills and the spirit gives life.”

– Voltaire, French writer, historian,

and philosopher

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88“A language does not

become fixed. The human intellect is

always on the march, or, if you prefer, in

movement, and languages with it.”

– Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist,

and dramatist

99“The limits of my language

are the limits of my world.”

– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British philosopher

1010“Translators are the shadow

heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that

make it possible for different cultures to talk to one

another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world,

live in one world.”

– Paul Auster, American author

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