Top 400 Helen Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.”

— Helen Keller

102. “No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.”

— Helen Keller

103. “The inferiority of women is man-made.”

— Helen Keller

104. “How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.”

— Helen Keller

105. “What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?”

— Helen Keller

106. “If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!”

— Helen Keller

107. “Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.”

— Helen Keller

108. “Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”

— Helen Keller

109. “Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.”

— Helen Keller

110. “There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.”

— Helen Keller

111. “Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”

— Helen Keller

112. “To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.”

— Helen Keller

113. “Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.”

— Helen Keller

114. “I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

— Helen Keller

115. “It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.”

— Helen Keller

116. “Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.”

— Helen Keller

117. “Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”

— Helen Keller

118. “When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.”

— Helen Keller

119. “I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.”

— Helen Keller

120. “Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.”

— Helen Keller

121. “Our beloved ones have not ‘gone to a far country.’ It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.”

— Helen Keller

122. “Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.”

— Helen Keller

123. “I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.”

— Helen Keller

124. “Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.”

— Helen Keller

125. “Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.”

— Helen Keller

126. “It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.”

— Helen Keller

127. “The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.”

— Helen Keller

128. “Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child’s one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.”

— Helen Keller

129. “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

— Helen Keller

130. “No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”

— Helen Keller

131. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”

— Helen Keller

132. “THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.”

— Helen Keller

133. “It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.”

— Helen Keller

134. “The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!”

— Helen Keller

135. “The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.”

— Helen Keller

136. “If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn’t feel so all alone.”

— Helen Keller

137. “I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.”

— Helen Keller

138. “There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

— Helen Keller

139. “It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”

— Helen Keller

140. “To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”

— Helen Keller

141. “History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.”

— Helen Keller

142. “Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.”

— Helen Keller

143. “Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows.”

— Helen Keller

144. “Words are the mind’s wings, are they not?”

— Helen Keller

145. “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.”

— Helen Keller

146. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works! Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Faith alone defends. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”

— Helen Keller

147. “I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.”

— Helen Keller

148. “When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.”

— Helen Keller

149. “Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.”

— Helen Keller

150. “I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.”

— Helen Keller