Quote

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

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
Able
Picture
Psychologist
Human
Exactly
Motion
Humans
Creatures
Creature
Children
Habit
Habits
Way
Normal
Acquire
Acquires
Taught
Helped
Psychologists
Child
Slow
Vastly
Knowledge
Discover
Retarded

More quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Image
All birth is unwilling.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
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
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
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
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
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
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
men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
We must have hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
Image
There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
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
It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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
Image
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
Image
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
Pearl S. Buck