"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

"The secret to wisdom is curiosity."
— Yoshiko Uchida (Wise Old Woman, The: Retold by Yoshiko Uchida)

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. "
— Pearl S. Buck

"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
— Pearl S. Buck

"The rich are always afraid."
— Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth)

"One faces the future with one's past."
— Pearl S. Buck

"There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be."
— Pearl Buck

"Be tender with the young, they did not ask to be born......Because you have suffered is the one reason why you should never make others suffer"
— Pearl S Buck

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. "
— Pearl S. Buck

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
— Pearl S. Buck

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. "
— Pearl S. Buck

"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail."
— Pearl S. Buck

"To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
— Pearl S. Buck

"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. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating."
— Pearl S. Buck

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. "
— Pearl S Buck

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."
— Pearl S. Buck

"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent"
— Pearl S. Buck

"To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future."
— Pearl S. Buck

"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

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... 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. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off...They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating."
— Pearl S. Buck

"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."
— Pearl S. Buck

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
— Pearl S. Buck

"Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness."
— Pearl S. Buck

"Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."
— Pearl S. Buck

"If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being."
— Pearl S. Buck

"Inside myself is a place where you live all alone and that is where you renew your springs that never dry up."
— Pearl S.Buck

"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

"Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought."
— Pearl S. Buck

"One faces the future with one's past."
— Pearl S.Buck

"He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people."
— Pearl S. Buck (Peony)

"The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members"
— Pearl S. Buck

"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 S. Buck

"" there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.""
— Pearl S. Buck (Peony)

"But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?"
— Pearl S. Buck

"Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?"
— Pearl S. Buck

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration"
— Pearl S. Buck

"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...

- Wang Lung"
— Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth)

"If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. "
— Pearl S. Buck

"Love cannot be forced,love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of Heaven, unasked and sought.
"
— Pearl S.Buck

"I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody."
— Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth)

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
— Pearl S. Buck

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
— Pearl Buck

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count,
It's the life in your years."
— Abraham Lincoln

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln