Knows Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

11 Knows quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck’s reflections on knowing blend cultural insight with gentle humanity. Though limited to eleven lines, the collection hints at her ability to convey deep empathy through simple phrasing.

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It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

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

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To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

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The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

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People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They…

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nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much…

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She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood…

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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a…

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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of…

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I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their…

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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I…

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“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,…

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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“Mind and body were well or ill together.”

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“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu”

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“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people…

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