Mikhail Lomonosov is a world-famous Russian scientist who has enriched almost all areas of science with his ingenious research.
This is not just a unique person who has gone down in history as a comprehensively gifted personality, but also a truly universal genius. This is probably why his statements and quotes are very popular among those who value the wisdom of the ages.
We bring to your attention the best quotes and aphorisms of Lomonosov , which contain apt observations and a deep analysis of reality.
But first, let's cite one of his most famous sayings.
Lomonosov's statement about languages
Charles V, the Roman Emperor, used to say that it is decent to speak Spanish with God, French with friends, German with the enemy, and Italian with the female sex. But if he were skilled in the Russian language, then, of course, he would have added that it is decent for them to speak with all of them. For I would find in it the splendor of Spanish, the liveliness of French, the strength of German, the tenderness of Italian, and, moreover, the richness and strong brevity of the images of Greek and Latin.
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The language that the Russian state commands over a great part of the world, due to its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others. Lomonosov M. V.
...The language of Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky is great and powerful... And we, of course, stand for every resident of Russia to have the opportunity to learn the great Russian language. Lenin V.I.
The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life. K.D. Ushinsky
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect. Turgenev I. S.
Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture... Therefore, studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing better to do, but an urgent necessity. Kuprin A. I.
Thanks to the Russian language, we, representatives of multilingual literatures, know each other well. Mutual enrichment of literary experience occurs through the Russian language, through the Russian book. Publishing a book by any writer in our country in Russian means reaching the widest possible readership. Rytkheu Yu. S.
I do not consider foreign words good and suitable unless they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones. We must protect our rich and beautiful language from damage. Leskov N. S.
Throughout the 18th century, New Russian literature developed the rich scientific language that we now possess; the language is flexible and powerful, capable of expressing the most abstract ideas of German metaphysics and the light, sparkling play of French wit. Herzen A.
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste. Belinsky V. G.
The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word. M.A. Sholokhov
There is one significant fact: in our still unsettled and young language we can convey the deepest forms of the spirit and thoughts of European languages.
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! It is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people! Turgenev I. S.
Verbosity - Russian language! Valery Igorevich Melnikov
The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, internal lyrical feelings, “the scurrying of life,” a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion. Herzen A.
The Russian language, as far as I can judge of it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems deliberately created to express the subtlest shades. Gifted with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thoughts when another language would require whole phrases for this. Merimee P.
Even if you don’t know whether, according to the rules of the Russian language, a comma is needed here or not, you are sure that in this place it is better to put it than not to put it. Alexey Kalinin
The Russian language is so great and powerful that any law in this language can be interpreted in your own way.
In almost one Russian language, will means both the power of overcoming and a symbol of the absence of barriers. Grigory Landau
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. Gorky M.
If the Russian language is so difficult for its native speakers, then how difficult it must be for foreigners!
We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say shortcomings, or shortcomings, or gaps?... Isn’t it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words unnecessarily? — Lenin (“On the purification of the Russian language”)
True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language. Paustovsky K. G.
The Russian language must become a world language. The time will come (and it is not far off)—the Russian language will begin to be studied along all meridians of the globe. Tolstoy A. N.
As is known from the story “In People,” M. Gorky, in order to understand the word, repeated it for a long time. Let's use his experience: dependent. AND WAIT FOR THE CROWN Well, the Russian language, you are still powerful! Inna Veksler
Russian language ! For millennia, the people created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent, poetic and laboring instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future. Tolstoy L.N.
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.
The Russian language is, first of all, Pushkin - the indestructible mooring of the Russian language. These are Lermontov, Leskov, Chekhov, Gorky. Tolstoy L. N.
Anyone who has memorized the English-Russian dictionary knows the English-Russian language.
Our native language should be the main basis of our general education and the education of each of us. Vyazemsky P. A.
We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language that we inherited from first-class masters. Furmanov D. A.
By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value. Paustovsky K. G.
The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the times with your heart, in close communication with the common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer. Prishvin M. M.
He could have become a great Russian poet if not for two trifles: lack of hearing and ignorance of the Russian language. Alexander Krasny
Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength. Gorky M.
New words of foreign origin are introduced into the Russian press incessantly and often completely unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive - these harmful exercises are practiced in those very same people. bodies where Russian nationality and its characteristics are most passionately advocated. Leskov N. S.
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language. Dostoevsky F. M.
Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in our very being there is nothing as surprising, as wonderful as our speech. Radishchev A. N.
There is no doubt that the desire to replete Russian speech with foreign words unnecessarily, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it does not harm the Russian language or Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it. Belinsky V. G.
A person’s morality is visible in his attitude to the word - L.N. Tolstoy
Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms. Dobrolyubov N. A.
We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language. Paustovsky K. G.
The ruler of many languages, the Russian language is not only in the vastness of the places where it dominates, but also in its own space and contentment, it is great in comparison with everyone in Europe. Lomonosov M. V.
Only having mastered the initial material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to master a foreign language to the possible perfection, but not before. Fedor Dostoevsky.
The Russian literary language is closer than all other European languages to colloquial folk speech. Tolstoy A. N.
The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language is abundantly clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors not only did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly even thought that they existed or could exist. Lomonosov M. V.
The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades. Merimee P.
How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness. Engels F.
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. Kuprin A. I.
It seems that not only in the Russian language the words priest and popularity have the same root? Alexander Krasny
The Russian language is quite rich; it has all the means to express the most subtle feelings and shades of thought. Korolenko V. G.
Knowledge of the Russian language, a language that deserves to be studied in every possible way, both in itself, because it is one of the strongest and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is no longer such a rarity... Engels F.
The Russian language is so rich in verbs and nouns, so diverse in forms expressing internal gesture, movement, shades of feelings and thoughts, colors, smells, the material of things, etc., that when building a scientific linguistic culture, it is necessary to understand this brilliant inheritance of “peasant strength”. Tolstoy A. N.
If you think and speak with words - Word Science, and if with habits - the Russian language! Valery I.M.
The Russian language is fully revealed in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land. Paustovsky K. G.
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself. Gogol N.V.
Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent, poetic and laboring instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future. Tolstoy L. N.
May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it makes noise, thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly flows into the soul, forming all the measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice! Karamzin N. M.
The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign aestheticians themselves, is not inferior either to Latin or to Greek in fluency, surpassing all European languages: Italian, French and Spanish, and even more so German. Derzhavin G. R.
The perception of other people's words, especially without necessity, is not enrichment, but damage to the language. Sumarokov A. P.
Among the magnificent qualities of our language there is one that is absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It lies in the fact that its sound is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages of the world. Paustovsky K. G.
An appearance that excludes ignorance of the Russian language. Valery Afonchenko
Surprisingly: in the Sanskrit language the words and are denoted by one word:. In the Russian language, in my opinion, there are also many words that could easily merge into one. Well, let's say: and... Pavlenko V. Yu.
The Russian language is great, for the one who cripples it is a bastard! Johnsen Koikolainer
That the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world, there is no doubt about it. Belinsky V. G.
Rich Russian language: how much can be expressed in one word! And how much can you not tell them!
Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there. Illich-Svitych V. M.
Take care of the purity of your language like a shrine! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us. Turgenev I. S.
Language is important for a patriot. Karamzin N. M.
English is increasingly penetrating the modern Russian language in order to completely disfigure it. Boris Krieger
Our language is expressive not only for high eloquence, for loud, picturesque poetry, but also for tender simplicity, for the sounds of the heart and sensitivity. It is richer in harmony than French; more capable of pouring out the soul in tones; represents more analogous words, that is, consistent with the action being expressed: a benefit that only indigenous languages have. Karamzin N. M.
... There is no word that would be so sweeping, smart, would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate so much, like an aptly spoken Russian word. Gogol N.V.
