Helen Keller Quotes

“I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.”

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.”

“Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.”

“I never fight, except against difficulties.”

“The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.”

“Things must be felt with the heart.”

“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”

“No nation is wise enough to rule another.”

“I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.”

“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”

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

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.”

“I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.”

“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.”

“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.”

“A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.”

“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.”

“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

“I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.”

“I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.”