"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."

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Source : Lillian Eugenia Smith (1954). “The journey”, World Publishing Company

Lillian Smith

#Believe Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes

“Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.”
“The eyes of my eyes are opened.”
“They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.”

Source : "The shoe must go on" by John Aglionby, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2001.
“I've been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I'm just kind of tired of going literally twelve time zones around the world. I would rather go six time zones and get to Iceland or whatever it is.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Anyone who bombs is my friend.”
“Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.”
“When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.”
“You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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