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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• 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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• The way forward is simple - just follow Christ!

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  Simple, Way Forward, Way

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• I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

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  Flames, Soul, Eternity

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

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

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  Teaching, Reading, Book

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• We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

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  Crush, Trials, Force

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.192, Book Tree

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

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  Eye, Use, Tomorrow

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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.

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  Views, Punishment, Overcoming

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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.

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  Faith, Despair, No Fear

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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.

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  Mean, Men, Thorough Knowledge

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

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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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• 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.

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  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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• 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.

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  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.

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  Heart, People, World

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

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

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  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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• 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.

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  Dollars, Should, Humans

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

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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.

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  Christian, Naughty, Two

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

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• College isn't the place to go for ideas.

  Helen Keller

  Graduation, Witty, Educational

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

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• There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  Helen Keller

  Ignorance, Optimism, Indifference

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

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  Work, Trying, Menace

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• Literature is my Utopia

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  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.

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  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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• Ideas without action are useless.

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  Ideas, Useless, Action

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• I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

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  Light, Silence, Darkness

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