Lillian Smith

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

— Lillian Smith

#around #both #curve #doubt #needed

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. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#ancient #birth #born #borne #forgive

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

— Lillian Smith

#asking #asking questions #die #learning #listening

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

— Lillian Smith

#college #education #experience #knowledge #little

Rich folks always talk hard times. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#folks #hard #hard times #rich #talk

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. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#away #dares #few #heart #human

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

— Lillian Smith

#cannot #concealed #defect #lack #ought

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. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#future #leave #lives #only #open

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

— Lillian Smith

#feel #flirting #need #well #worth