Helen Keller Quotes
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.
Helen Keller
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Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. The world is none other than the mind. The mind is none other than the heart. Therefore the entire story finishes in the heart.
Ramana Maharshi
You can tirelessly keep on reading the same author, revere, admire, praise him, exalt him to the skies, know and recite each of his sentences by heart, and yet remain completely unaffected by him, as if he had never demanded anything of you and not said anything at all.
Elias Canetti
Distant lover, ooo, sugarHow can you treat my heart so mean and cruel?Didn't you know, sugar, that I dreamOf what I spent with you?I treasure it like it was a precious jewel, oh baby.Lord have mercy!
Marvin Gaye
Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.
Edward Young
Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it.
Clifford D. Simak
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato
A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.
David Bronstein
The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
Lydia Lunch
Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?
William Buckland
To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
Federico Fellini
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.
Helen Keller
