Helen Keller Quotes - Page 14

• Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

  Helen Keller

  Life, Knowledge, Math

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.146, Om Books International

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• There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Order, Giving

  Helen Keller (2009). “The World I Live in”, p.132, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Sight, Vision, Born

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• The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

  Helen Keller

  Ideas, Brotherhood, Dawn

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

  Helen Keller

  Fall, Men, Together

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

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• I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

  Helen Keller

  True Joy, Tools, Made

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• It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.

  Helen Keller

  Art, Spring, Pride

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

  Helen Keller

  Lying, Heaven, Soul

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.69, Om Books International

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

  Helen Keller

  Vision, Born, Worst

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• 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.

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  Country, Mean, Men

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• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Doors

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• I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Desire, Way

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• Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Beautiful, Stars

  Helen Keller, SBP Editors (2017). “The Story of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.93, Samaira Book Publishers

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• I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

  Helen Keller

  Writing, Discovery, Hands

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• The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Xmas, Real

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  War, Hero, Mean

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Thinking, Allies

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• God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

  Helen Keller

  God, Men, Dominion

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

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• Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

  Helen Keller

  Real, Blow, Men

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.148, Matthew Gordon

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• THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

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  Teacher, Important, Remember

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.17, Om Books International

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• The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Life Lesson, Acceptance

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

  Helen Keller

  Lying, Land, Promised Land

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

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• The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Years, Two

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.17, Om Books International

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• The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Land, Bankers

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

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• Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

  Helen Keller

  Self, Found, Handicaps

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