Mario Pei famous quotes

If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?
-- Mario Pei

#Study #Language #Term

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.
-- Mario Pei

#Technology #Vocabulary #Together

Good architecture lets nature in.
-- Mario Pei

#Architecture

One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the course of any of these language activities, you run across words whose meaning or use baffles you, don't by-pass them. Look them up in the dictionary and familiarize yourself with them.
-- Mario Pei

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I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.