Quote

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

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
Work
Minds
Limitations
Mind
Whose
Limitation
Men
Beyond
Bound
Vision
Bounds
Action
Essential
Cannot
Essentials
Without
Busy
Must
Allow

More quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Image
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
We must have hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
Pearl S. Buck
Image
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
Image
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
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
Image
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
All birth is unwilling.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Love alone could waken love.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
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
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 and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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