Helen Keller Quotes
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.
Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
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.
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.
I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.
I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.
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.
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.
I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.
For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...
