Famous Lillian Smith Quotations

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"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."
by Lillian Smith
"I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within."
by Lillian Smith
"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."
by Lillian Smith
"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, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely."
by Lillian Smith
"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."
by Lillian Smith
"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."
by Lillian Smith


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