Top 400 Helen Keller Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

— Helen Keller

52. “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.”

— Helen Keller

53. “There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”

— Helen Keller

54. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

— Helen Keller

55. “Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.”

— Helen Keller

56. “Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

— Helen Keller

57. “Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”

— Helen Keller

58. “My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.”

— Helen Keller

59. “When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.”

— Helen Keller

60. “Fear: the best way out is through.”

— Helen Keller

61. “Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”

— Helen Keller

62. “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”

— Helen Keller

63. “Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”

— Helen Keller

64. “I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”

— Helen Keller

65. “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

— Helen Keller

66. “The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, – the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.”

— Helen Keller

67. “To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”

— Helen Keller

68. “So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”

— Helen Keller

69. “Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.”

— Helen Keller

70. “Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”

— Helen Keller

71. “What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.”

— Helen Keller

72. “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.”

— Helen Keller

73. “The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”

— Helen Keller

74. “Literature is my Utopia.”

— Helen Keller

75. “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

— Helen Keller

76. “I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

— Helen Keller

77. “I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.”

— Helen Keller

78. “Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.”

— Helen Keller

79. “While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Helen Keller

81. “The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”

— Helen Keller

82. “The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.”

— Helen Keller

83. “We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.”

— Helen Keller

84. “Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.”

— Helen Keller

85. “If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.”

— Helen Keller

86. “Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”

— Helen Keller

87. “Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge – broad, deep knowledge – is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.”

— Helen Keller

88. “I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”

— Helen Keller

89. “I am only one but still i am one.”

— Helen Keller

90. “To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.”

— Helen Keller

91. “What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.”

— Helen Keller

92. “One should never count the years – one should instead count one’s interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I’m glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.”

— Helen Keller

93. “Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.”

— Helen Keller

94. “A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.”

— Helen Keller

95. “The simplest way to be happy is to do good.”

— Helen Keller

96. “Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.”

— Helen Keller

97. “If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.”

— Helen Keller

98. “Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.”

— Helen Keller

99. “Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”

— Helen Keller

100. “The way forward is simple – just follow Christ!”

— Helen Keller