to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“...the relationships between the five elements. What are the five elements? They are wood, fire, earth, metal, water. These create, and also… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the periphery of his mind and consciousness was the warning that Russia must be watched. For hundreds of years Russia… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them ...… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“How can school help you with the land?" he asked. An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. "Learning… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Lucinda’s foolish words stuck in his mind like a flung dagger he could not pull out. They’d be in him always, maybe.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
