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.
Knowledge |
Pearl Buck quoteBecause 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 Buck quote Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl Buck quote Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl Buck quote 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 Buck quote If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl Buck quote 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 Buck quote 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 Buck quote Biography
1892 - 1973, US author