110+ Pearl S. Buck Quotes On Pearl S Buck, Friendship And Education

Pearl S. Buck was an American Novelist born in 1892. She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was known for her novels about Chinese rural life, including The Good Earth, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Pearl S. Buck on pearl s buck, friendship, education.

Top 10 Pearl S. Buck Quotes

1. To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
2. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
3. Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
4. In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
5. Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
6. Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
7. All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
8. Hunger makes a thief of any man.
9. The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
10. The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

Pearl S. Buck Image Quotes

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. — Pearl S. Buck

Hunger makes a thief of any man. — Pearl S. Buck

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members — Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck Short Quotes

• Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
• A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
• A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
• We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
• One faces the future with one's past.
• Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
• Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.
• Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
• Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Education

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. — Pearl S. Buck

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. — Pearl S. Buck

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction. — Pearl S. Buck

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. — Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Love

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach. — Pearl S. Buck

Most mothers kiss and scold together. — Pearl S. Buck

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be. — Pearl S. Buck

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him? — Pearl S. Buck

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love. — Pearl S. Buck

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought. — Pearl S. Buck

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear. — Pearl S. Buck

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love? — Pearl S. Buck

Nothing is menial where there is love. — Pearl S. Buck

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive. — Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Inspirational

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. — Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. — Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Life

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. — Pearl S. Buck

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful. — Pearl S. Buck

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity. — Pearl S. Buck

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. — Pearl S. Buck

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. — Pearl S. Buck

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers. — Pearl S. Buck

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves. — Pearl S. Buck

Life is stronger than death. — Pearl S. Buck

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life. — Pearl S. Buck

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. — Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Work

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

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

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. — Pearl S. Buck

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking. — Pearl S. Buck

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action. — Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Hope

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. — Pearl S. Buck

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. — Pearl S. Buck

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen. — Pearl S. Buck

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter. — Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Earth

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace. — Pearl S. Buck

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. — Pearl S. Buck

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break. — Pearl S. Buck

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it. — Pearl S. Buck

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth. — Pearl S. Buck

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. — Pearl S. Buck

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people. — Pearl S. Buck

there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots. — Pearl S. Buck

I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence. — Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck Famous Quotes And Sayings

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. — Pearl S. Buck

Hunger makes a thief of any man. — Pearl S. Buck

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members — Pearl S. Buck

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless. — Pearl S. Buck

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. — Pearl S. Buck

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed. — Pearl S. Buck

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us. — Pearl S. Buck

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

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. — Pearl S. Buck

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. — Pearl S. Buck

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more. — Pearl S. Buck

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity. — Pearl S. Buck

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. — Pearl S. Buck

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. — Pearl S. Buck

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. — Pearl S. Buck

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman. — Pearl S. Buck

Vermont is a country unto itself. — Pearl S. Buck

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love. — Pearl S. Buck

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been. — Pearl S. Buck

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. — Pearl S. Buck

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

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority. — Pearl S. Buck

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times. — Pearl S. Buck

There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food. — Pearl S. Buck

There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are. — Pearl S. Buck

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies. — Pearl S. Buck

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. — Pearl S. Buck

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

Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction. — Pearl S. Buck

For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth. — Pearl S. Buck

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women. — Pearl S. Buck

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified. — Pearl S. Buck

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid. — Pearl S. Buck

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority. — Pearl S. Buck

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

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

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement. — Pearl S. Buck

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other. — Pearl S. Buck

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. — Pearl S. Buck

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be. — Pearl S. Buck

Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy. — Pearl S. Buck

I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love. — Pearl S. Buck

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody. — Pearl S. Buck

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. — Pearl S. Buck

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation. — Pearl S. Buck

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question. — Pearl S. Buck

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease. — Pearl S. Buck

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

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

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty. — Pearl S. Buck

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not. — Pearl S. Buck

The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being. — Pearl S. Buck

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education. — Pearl S. Buck

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection. — Pearl S. Buck

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent? — Pearl S. Buck

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

Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction — Pearl S. Buck

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

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused. — Pearl S. Buck

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292 — Pearl S. Buck

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them. — Pearl S. Buck

Life Lessons by Pearl S. Buck

1. Pearl S. Buck taught the importance of understanding and respecting different cultures and backgrounds. She showed the power of empathy and compassion in her writing, encouraging readers to be more open-minded and tolerant of others.
2. She also emphasized the importance of self-discovery and understanding one's own identity, showing how self-awareness can lead to a more fulfilling life.
3. Finally, she highlighted the power of resilience and perseverance, teaching us that we can overcome any obstacle with courage and determination.