Lillian Smith Quotes

Most popular Lillian Smith Quotes

There is nothing more powerful than ignorance, not even intelligence.
— Lillian Smith The Journey

ignorance

Crises are two edged; they always create possibilities for both evil and good.
— Lillian Smith Our Face, Our Words

crisis

Faith and doubt both are needed—not as antagonists but working side by side—to take us around the unknown curve.
— Lillian Smith The Journey

doubt

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

doubt faith

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 The Journey

beliefs

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.
— Lillian Smith

Travel

Questions which cannot be freed by words find it easy to slip into the blood stream, changing the body's chemistry, changing a whole life, sometimes.
— Lillian Smith The Journey

asking questions

Loyalty is a verbal switch-blade used by little and big bosses to force us quickly to accept a questionable situation which our intelligence and conscience should reject.
— Lillian Smith The Journey

loyalty