Language, Polish proverb

Words must be weighed, not counted.

- Polish proverb

말은 무게를 재야하는 것이지, 헤아리는 게 아니다.

- 폴란드속담

Language, Italian Proverb

Translators, traitors.

- Italian Proverb

통역자는 배신자다.

- 이탈리아속담

Writing, Chinese Proverb

Never write a letter while you are angry.

- Chinese Proverb

노했을 때는 편지를 쓰지 말라.

- 중국 속담

Language, Helen Adams Keller

The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that "water" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free!

- Helen Adams Keller (1880–1968)

언어의 신비성이 내게 나타났다. 그때 나는 "물"이 내 손위로 흐르는 멋지고 시원한 그 어떤 것임을 알았다. 그같이 살아 있는 말이 내 영혼을 일깨우고 빛과 기쁨을 주고 자유롭게 만들어 주었다.

- 헬렌 켈러 (1880-1968) 미국 교육가, 작가, 정치행동가

Language, William Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

- William Shakespeare

이름이란 게 무슨 소용인가? 장미꽃은 다른 이름으로 불리워져도 똑같이 향기로울 게 아닌가?

- 윌리엄 셰익스피어

Art, Aldo Leopold

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River

Language, Christian Nestell Bovee

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

- Christian Nestell Bovee, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 7.

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