"People are too prone to think that..." - Quote by Helen Keller
People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
More by Helen Keller
“So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
“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.”
More on Possibility
More on Potential
“America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.”
“There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it”
“The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.”