Helen Keller Quotes - Page 17

• Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

  Helen Keller

  Suffering, Alleviate, Satisfied

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.74, American Foundation for the Blind

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Tolerance, Brotherhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Uplifting, Morning, Heart

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

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• I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

  Helen Keller

  Taken, Mean, Eye

  "Three Days to See". Book by Helen Keller, 1933.

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Wise, Issues, Justice

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

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Sunset, Mean, Sky

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Dog, Giving, Silence

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Law

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  God, Heart, Eye

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

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Self, Perfection

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

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

  Helen Keller

  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

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• It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Sight, Vision

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• The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Failing, Calamity

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• Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Optimism, Festivals

  Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.29, The Floating Press

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• We should respect all people.

  Helen Keller

  People, Should

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• Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Hero, Army, Construction

  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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• Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

  Helen Keller

  Spiritual, Giving, Joy

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

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• Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

  Helen Keller

  Failing, Globalization, Chiefs

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• Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

  Helen Keller

  Real, Mean, Men

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.68, Matthew Gordon

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• My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

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  Wonderful Friends, Interesting, Has Beens

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• I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Heart, Doors

  Helen Keller (1903). “Optimism, My Key of Life”

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• When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

  Helen Keller

  Positive, Doors

  "We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.

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• The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Sight, People, Vision

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• Your success & happiness lies in you.

  Helen Keller

  Lying, Success Happiness

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• We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Real, Destiny

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