Top 100 Helen Keller Quotes
#1. It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.
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#3. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
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#4. The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
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#5. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
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#6. Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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#7. People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))
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#9. When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
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#10. It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
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#11. I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
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#12. It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
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#13. What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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#14. Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.
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#15. The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
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#16. All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
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#17. The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
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#18. The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
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#19. No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
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#20. No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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#22. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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#23. Friends create the world anew each day.
Without their loving care, courage would not
suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
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#24. The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
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#25. I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.
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#26. I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
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#27. When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.
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#28. Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
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#29. Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
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#30. I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
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#31. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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#32. A bend in the road is not the end of the road ... Unless you fail to make the turn.
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#33. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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#34. I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
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#35. The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
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#36. Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
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#37. Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.
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#38. We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
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#39. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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#40. What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
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#41. The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
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#42. Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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#43. The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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#44. Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.
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#45. Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
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#46. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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#48. What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
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#49. The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
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#50. The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
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#51. A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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#52. One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates ...
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#53. I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.
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#54. What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!
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#55. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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#56. I have heard of the stars, of the play of light on the waves
these i would like to see
but far more than sight
i wish for my ears to be opened
the voice of a friend
the imaginations of mozart
life without these is darker by far
than blindness
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#57. The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.
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#58. One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
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#59. Some of the most significant discoveries in modern science owe their origin to the imagination of men who had neither accurate knowledge nor exact instruments to demonstrate their beliefs.
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#60. My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.
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#61. To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.
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#62. Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.
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#63. I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
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#64. The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
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#65. I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
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#66. That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.
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#67. While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.
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#68. I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
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#69. The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.
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#70. What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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#71. When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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#72. Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
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#73. We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
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#74. Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
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#75. Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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#76. No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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#77. What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.
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#79. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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#80. Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits ...
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#81. Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, "There is joy in self-forgetfulness.
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#82. I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live ...
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#83. Under softest touch hides treacherous claws.
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#84. When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
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#85. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
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#86. So imagination crowns the experience of my hands. And they learned their cunning from the wise hand of another, which, itself guided by imagination, led me safely in paths that I knew not, made darkness light before me, and made crooked ways straight.
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#87. Anything I have ever done that was ultimately worthwhile, initially scare me to death!
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#88. It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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#90. In college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures - solitude, books and imagination - outside with the whispering pines. I
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#91. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
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#92. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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#93. We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
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#94. The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
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#95. If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.
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#96. He makes you feel that if you only had a little more time, you, too, might be an inventor.
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#97. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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#98. The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
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#99. I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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#100. The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.
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