Top 100 Quotes About Helen Keller
#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.
Helen Keller
#2. Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
Helen Keller
#3. The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
Helen Keller
#5. Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
Helen Keller
#6. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Helen Keller
#7. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
#8. I distrust the rash optimism in this country that cries, "Hurrah, we're all right! This is the greatest nation on earth," when there are grievances that call loudly for redress.
Helen Keller
#9. Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
Helen Keller
#10. The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Helen Keller
#11. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Helen Keller
#12. The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
Helen Keller
#13. Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
Helen Keller
#14. Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
Helen Keller
#15. Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
Helen Keller
#16. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
Helen Keller
#17. It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me ... if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me ...
Helen Keller
#18. Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
Helen Keller
#19. The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
Helen Keller
#20. So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
Helen Keller
#21. The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller
#23. I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Helen Keller
#24. People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))
Helen Keller
#25. I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Helen Keller
#26. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
#27. My friends have made the story of my life.
Helen Keller
#29. When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Helen Keller
#30. It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
Helen Keller
#31. When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.
Helen Keller
#32. Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
Helen Keller
#33. Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
Helen Keller
#34. I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
Helen Keller
#35. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#36. It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
Helen Keller
#37. Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.
Helen Keller
#39. What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
#40. I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
Helen Keller
#41. My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
Helen Keller
#42. Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
Helen Keller
#43. Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.
Bruce Lansky
#44. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
Helen Keller
#45. There's only one story, the story of your life.
Helen Keller
#46. Literature is my Utopia ... No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends
Helen Keller
#47. 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.
Helen Keller
#48. Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.
Helen Keller
#49. Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
Helen Keller
#50. He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
Helen Keller
#51. To be banished from Rome is but to live outside of Rome.
Helen Keller
#52. I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
Helen Keller
#53. There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
Helen Keller
#54. What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
Helen Keller
#55. The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
Helen Keller
#56. Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
Helen Keller
#57. 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
Helen Keller
#58. The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Helen Keller
#59. The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
Helen Keller
#62. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Helen Keller
#63. 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.
Helen Keller
#64. Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Helen Keller
#65. One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
Helen Keller
#66. What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller
#67. I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
Helen Keller
#68. Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
Helen Keller
#69. No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller
#70. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
#71. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
#72. I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
Helen Keller
#73. The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
Helen Keller
#74. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller
#75. Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
Helen Keller
#76. Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.
Helen Keller
#77. Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
Helen Keller
#78. Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
#79. Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller
#80. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
Helen Keller
#81. I fall, I stand still ... I trudge on. I gain a little ... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.
Helen Keller
#82. Famous INFPs include Isabel Myers (creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), St. John the disciple, Carl Rogers, Princess Diana, George Orwell, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Rogers, A.A. Milne, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, and William Shakespeare.
Molly Owens
#83. Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.
Helen Keller
#84. It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
Helen Keller
#85. I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
Helen Keller
#87. I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.
Helen Keller
#88. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
#89. If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it was?
George Carlin
#90. Friends create the world anew each day.
Without their loving care, courage would not
suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
Helen Keller
#91. Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller
#92. Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.
Helen Keller
#93. Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Helen Keller
#94. When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.
Helen Keller
#95. Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.
Karl Popper
#96. The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
Helen Keller
#97. The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.
Helen Keller
#98. 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.
Helen Keller
#99. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
#100. I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
Helen Keller
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