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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 17

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It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

Sight, Vision

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

Flower, Sweetness

Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.82, Modern Library

I never fight, except against difficulties.

Fighting, Helping Others, People

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Angel, Smell, Fallen

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

War, Roots, Modern

Smell is a fallen angel.

Angel, Smell, Fallen Angels

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

Happiness, Heart, Joy

Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1905). “The Story of My Life”

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

Dream, New York, Real

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

Men, Tolerance, Brotherhood

Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Thinking, Enlightenment, Degrees

Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1904). “The story of my life”

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

Philosophy, Creeds, Objectives

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.27, American Foundation for the Blind

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

Dark, Vision, Golden

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Perfect, Greek, Musical

Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.174, 谷月社

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.

Book, Eye, Ears

Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.57, 谷月社

My friends have made the story of my life.

Healing, Scrapbooking, Stories

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.85, Om Books International

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

Heart, Acceptance, Thinking

HELEN KELLER (1960). “MY RELIGION”

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

Evil, Way, Knows

Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

Eye, Failing, Calamity

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.

Hands, Purpose, Way

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

Suffering, Alleviate, Satisfied

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.74, American Foundation for the Blind

Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.

Feels

I have found life so beautiful.

Beautiful, Attitude, Found

Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

Believe, Agency, Principles

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.97, American Foundation for the Blind

We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

Men, Errors, Rights

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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.

Lynching, White, America

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.96, American Foundation for the Blind

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