Quote

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

Pearl S. Buck

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
Enough
Insists
Mind
Prejudice
Diversity
Intelligence
Justice
Culture
Often
Change
Doggedly

More quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Image
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
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
Image
starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Pearl S. Buck
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 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
Image
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
Image
Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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