Helen Keller Quotes
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.
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.
There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
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.
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
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.
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
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.
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.
My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.
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.
I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
