Helen Keller Quotes
-
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
-
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.
-
No nation is wise enough to rule another.
-
Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.
-
The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream
-
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
-
I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.
-
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
-
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
-
When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
-
I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
-
Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.
-
God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
-
What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?
-
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
-
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
-
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
-
I will eat grandfather for dinner.
-
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
-
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
-
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
-
They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.
-
We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.
-
The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.