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Famous Pearl S. Buck Quotes
“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.”
“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”
“It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.”
“Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.”
“The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.”
“We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.”
“On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.”
“When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.”
“Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.”
“When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.”
“Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”
“When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.”
“There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.”
“At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.”
“A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.”