Home / Quotes / Quote by Wilhelm von Humboldt

Quote by Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.”

Quote by Wilhelm von Humboldt

Author

Wilhelm von Humboldt

German philosopher, educator, and linguist, known as the 'Father of Educational Reform'. Wilhelm von Humboldt was born on June 22, 1767, and died on April 8, 1835. He had profound insights into education, language, and culture, which had a lasting impact on the world. more

You May Also Like

“Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player.”

Way Player Becoming Approach Down And Analyzing Slowing

Author:Jim Abbott

“Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.”

Process Practice Higher Achievement Performances Extraordinary Athlete Mindset Focused Relaxed

Book:Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life

Source: Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life

“I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.”

Has Beens Wish Taught Painful Toughness Mental Toughness

Author:Kurt Warner

“The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.”

Lines Failing Bottom Bottom Line Afraid To Fail

Author:Jerry Colangelo

“Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.”

Thinking World Looks May Littles Loss Too Much Instinct Panic Choke Thinking Too Much Worlds Apart

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.”

Spiritual Emotional Exercise Activity Majors Rational Ideology Prose Logical Ritual Aphorism Mixtures Antipathy Prose And Poetry

Author:William C. Brown

“An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.”

Philosophy Age Literature Practice Concepts Narrative Prose Digital Aphorism Ideological Parables Digital Age Synthesis Didactic

Author:William C. Brown

“An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.”

Practice Theory Illusion Extremes Intuition Stupidity Observation Certainty Aphorism Probability Hypothesis Mixtures Thesis Synthesis Antithesis Theory And Practice

Author:William C. Brown

“Nobody's about saving anymore. No one cares about a rainy day anymore. Nobody saves up enough for even an umbrella for a rainy day. It's sad. It really is a new form of slavery. We used to work to be able to afford material things. Now we work for these things. They're the boss. That house you can't afford, that car that's out of your price range, that cellphone that drains your bank account - that's your boss.”

Enough Care Able Form Used House Car Materials Accounts Slavery Saving Range Boss Drains Rainy Umbrella Rainy Day Material Things Bank Accounts No One Cares Cellphone

Author:Chris Rock

“I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.”

Used Honest Comic Honest Work

Author:Alonzo Bodden