Helen Keller Quotes

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

Love, Mind, Joy

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller

Vision, Blind, Worse

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Long, Often, Run

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller

Great, Justice, Sense

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller

Sad, Times, Touch

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen Keller

Happy, Why, Dark

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

Inspirational, Life, Future

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

Suffering, Full, Overcoming

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

Great, Travel, Forward

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller

Human, Stars, Secret

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller

Cannot, Light, Between

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Happiness, True, Through

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Life, Great, Nothing

The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller

Education, Tolerance, Result

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

Science, Human, May

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller

Knowledge, Love, Light

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller

Hand, Eagle, Skill

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller

Mind, Greatest, Brain

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

Patience, Joy, Brave

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller

Religion, God, Before

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller

Feels, Impulse, Soar

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

Honest, Along, Heroes

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

Great, Men, Majority

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller

Nothing, Hard, Everything

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 27, 1880

Died: June 1, 1968

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