Pearl S. Buck Mind Quotations

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

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.

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

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

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.