Quotes from Lillian Smith

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

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

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives...

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

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.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

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

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

Rich folks always talk hard times.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

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

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

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.

To believe in something to 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.

Faith is 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.

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.