Helen Keller Quotes

“I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.”

“Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!”

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

“Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”

“The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.”

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

“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.”

“I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.”

“More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.”

“The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.”

“The simplest way to be happy is to do good.”

“He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.”

“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”

“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.”

“If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.”

“Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.”

“Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.”

“When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.”

“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”

“If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!”

“The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.”

“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.”

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