Helen Keller Quotes

Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Keller

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• Vision
• Spirit
• Mountain
• Divine
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• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Want
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• For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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  • Me
  • Child

• Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.

  

  Zendaya
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Vision

• I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Person
  • Mountain
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• I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Vision
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• The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

  

  Karl Marx
  • English
  • Spirit
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• I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • House
  • Spirit
  • Give

• On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • Mind
  • Simple

• Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Divine

• I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

  

  Acker Bilk
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Library

• There was a weird moment where-I was still a drummer, I always saw myself as a drummer-and we got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking 'Wow, I really need to take singing more seriously!'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Crazy

• Some men like Jack and some like JillI'm glad I like them both but stillI wonder if this freewheelingReally is an enlightened thing,Or is its greater scope a signOf deviance from some party line?In the strict ranks of Gay and StraightWhat is my status: Stray? Or Great?

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Great
  • Men
  • Party

• I wonder where that bat is now? Maybe he's sitting in Bat Heaven somewhere, with his own bat roadies...

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Heaven
  • Wonder

• The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Girl
  • Vision
  • Sex

• I learned early on the magic of life is having a vision, having faith, and then going for it.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Vision

• You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Wonder

• You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fear

• Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Art
  • Spirit
  • Seems

• Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by diminished cultivation.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Fall

• A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.

  

  Emil Ruder
  • Work
  • Purpose
  • Printed

• I just open my mouth and out it comes.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Open
  • Mouth
  • Comes

• Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Wonder
  • Vision
  • Spirit