To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. Pearl S. Buck More Quotes by Pearl S. Buck More Quotes From Pearl S. Buck Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity. Pearl S. Buck introversion immaturity spiritual Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth. Pearl S. Buck glasses angel two When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there. Pearl S. Buck proof want facts My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother. Pearl S. Buck mother memories children The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change. Pearl S. Buck diversity mind justice It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them. Pearl S. Buck diversity justice people Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself Pearl S. Buck save-yourself ifs men Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.' Pearl S. Buck adversity courage integrity It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political. Pearl S. Buck women political country All birth is unwilling. Pearl S. Buck unwilling birth Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless. Pearl S. Buck unity blow wind A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. Pearl S. Buck fate ignorance knowledge Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes. Pearl S. Buck success-failure success-and-failure failure Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. Pearl S. Buck creativity cutting book A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. Pearl S. Buck educated grass men Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation. Pearl S. Buck sins-not novelists shadow People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them. Pearl S. Buck simple country people Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory? Pearl S. Buck fighting gun believe The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. Pearl S. Buck husband gun power God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular. Pearl S. Buck vastness particular greatness
