20 exhibits
Exhibits
Famous lines, one to a page — what each one means, who said it, and the source. Where the record runs out, the label says so.
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Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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Samuel Johnson
“Language is the dress of thought.”
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
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Aristotle
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
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Attributed
Federico Fellini
“A different language is a different vision of life.”
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Frank Smith
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.”
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Flora Lewis
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”
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Napoleon Bonaparte
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
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William Penn
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.”
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Thucydides
“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.”
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Voltaire
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
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Rudyard Kipling
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
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W. B. Yeats
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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Michelangelo
“I am still learning.”
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Rumi
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
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Japanese proverb
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
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Albert Einstein
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Lost time is never found again.”
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Confucius
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”