Lillian Smith

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

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.

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

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.