57 Quotations by Pearl S. Buck
- 41. The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation fr ...

- 42. The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

- 43. The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does n ...

- 44. The secret of joy is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enj ...

- 45. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve ...

- 46. To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

- 47. To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

- 48. Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

- 49. We must have hope or starve to death.

- 50. We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

- 51. We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our count ...

- 52. We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from me ...

- 53. What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, bef ...

- 54. When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

- 55. When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

- 56. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

- 57. You cannot make yourself feel something you cannot feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite ...

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