5 Pearl Buck Quotes on Wisdom

Pearl Buck quotes on wisdom

15. Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

39. In the midst of possible world war, of wholesale destruction, I find my only question this: are there enough people now who believe? Is there time enough left for the wise to act? It is a contest between ignorance and death, or wisdom and life. My faith in humanity stands firm.

43. Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

47. Chinese were born, it seemed to me, with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them. To talk even with a farmer and his family, none of whom could read or write, was often to hear a philosophy at once sane and humorous. If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.

68. The true wisdom of life consists in seeing the extraordinary in the common.