Quotes by Helen Keller

Helen Keller

Helen Keller

American writer

Lived from: 1880 - 1968

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 27 june 1880 Died: 1 june 1968

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  • Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
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  • Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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  • Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but the smell makes the garden a place of joy.
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  • My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
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  • My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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  • Never bend your head. Keep it always high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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  • No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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  • Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
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  • Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
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  • One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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  • Only we can so little; together we can do so much.
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  • Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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  • Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.
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  • Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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  • Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.
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  • The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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  • The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
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  • The highest result of education is tolerance.
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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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  • The only thing worse than being blind is that you do have sight but no vision .
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