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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge. -- Yehuda Amichai
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. -- Emma Bonino
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. -- Thomas Bulfinch
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. -- Jesse James Garrett
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages. -- N. Scott Momaday
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio. -- Jamais Cascio
The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues. -- John Wycliffe
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. -- Jose Rizal
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created. -- Amy Tan
Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language. -- Benjamin Hoff
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge -- Jack Kerouac
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. -- Jean Dubuffet
Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change. -- Peter Farb
Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language. -- Henry Jenner
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. -- Toni Morrison
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled. -- Albert Einstein
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93] -- Northrop Frye
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]" -- Northrop Frye
In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see. -- Robert Pinsky

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