Lillian Smith Quotes (13 Quotes)

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past to lay down one's power for others in need to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God this is what man's journey is about, I think.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Rich folks always talk hard times.

For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people our own selves dehumanized into ''the masses.'' And where is the David who can slay this giant

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

No journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.