WIST

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

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American writer
(Attributed)

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever since … I could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American writer
My Several Worlds (1954)

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American writer
What America Means to Me, ch. 4 (1943)

When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American writer
Letter to New York Times (14 Nov 1941)