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Helen Keller Quotes - Page 18

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Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

Giving, Understanding, Give Me

When one doors closes, another door opens.

Doors, Insightful

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

Education, Children, Disappointment

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

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.

Children, Guarantees, Taught

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

Heart, Optimism, Facts

Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.

Country, Struggle, Fate

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

Courage, Wavering, Spirit

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

No nation is wise enough to rule another.

Wise, Imperialism, Enough

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

Beautiful, Children, Men

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

Inspirational, Sacrifice, Law

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

Education, Stones, Wealth

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

Book, Remember, Has Beens

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.

Light, Nighttime, Buddy

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

Children, Real, Thinking

"The Story of My Life".

Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

Dog, Giving, Silence

That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

Sunset, Mean, Sky

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.

Wise, Issues, Justice

Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

Valleys, Trouble, Infinite

Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.107, The Floating Press

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

Stupid, Mean, Bores You

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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.

Uplifting, Morning, Heart

Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.141, Book Tree

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

God, Heart, Eye

Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Courier Corporation

Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that 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.

Men, Self, Perfection

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.111, Matthew Gordon

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.

Vanity, Mind, Vexation

Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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.

Stars, Wagons, Doe

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.163, Om Books International

There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.

Bible, Regret, Thinking

Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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