Mind Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

17 Mind quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck’s 17 reflections blend cultural insight with inner clarity, offering a balanced view of how our thoughts shape the world we inhabit. A concise but rich source of perspective for the curious mind.

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“Mind and body were well or ill together.”

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Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

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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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“This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.”

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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

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

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

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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down…

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“Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he…

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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a…

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“His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far…

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In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in…

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Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot…

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“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them ...…

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Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that…

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A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh,…

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He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without…

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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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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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