Helen Keller Quotes - Page 7

• What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Retirement, Self

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• When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

  Helen Keller

  Funny Love, Doors, Long

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• True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

  Helen Keller

  Teaching, Reading, Book

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• I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

  Helen Keller

  Flames, Soul, Eternity

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.27, Book Tree

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• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Use, Tomorrow

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• Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

  Helen Keller

  Faith, Despair, No Fear

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• People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Ideas, People

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• If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

  Helen Keller

  Hearing, All Alone, Feels

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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.

  Helen Keller

  Freedom, Real, Mean

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

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• I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

  Helen Keller

  Views, Punishment, Overcoming

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• The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, People, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.28, American Foundation for the Blind

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• The way forward is simple - just follow Christ!

  Helen Keller

  Simple, Way Forward, Way

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• I will eat grandfather for dinner.

  Helen Keller

  Grandfather, Dinner

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.457, The Floating Press

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

  Helen Keller

  Book, Fall, Hands

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.1, NYU Press

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• I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

  Helen Keller

  Country, War, School

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.42, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

  Helen Keller

  Wings, Mind

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.255, The Floating Press

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• I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

  Helen Keller

  Mean, Men, Thorough Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.149, Modern Library

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• The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

  Helen Keller

  Dollars, Should, Humans

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.467, Modern Library

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• Literature is my Utopia

  Helen Keller

  Book, Reading, Literature

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.65, 谷月社

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• I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Believe, Soul

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.157, Matthew Gordon

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

  Helen Keller

  Sight, Vision, Tragedy

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• Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  Helen Keller

  Motivational, Heart, Imagination

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Women

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.544, The Floating Press

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• I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Naughty, Two

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.4, American Foundation for the Blind

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