Top 400 Helen Keller Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”

— Helen Keller

252. “Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, “There is joy in self-forgetfulness.”

— Helen Keller

253. “I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.”

— Helen Keller

254. “It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.”

— Helen Keller

255. “Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.”

— Helen Keller

256. “Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.”

— Helen Keller

257. “Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.”

— Helen Keller

258. “I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.”

— Helen Keller

259. “You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.”

— Helen Keller

260. “I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”

— Helen Keller

261. “Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.”

— Helen Keller

262. “We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.”

— Helen Keller

263. “Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.”

— Helen Keller

264. “History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.”

— Helen Keller

265. “The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.”

— Helen Keller

266. “Even if you have a problem, you don’t need to be one.”

— Helen Keller

267. “The worst calamity: ‘To have eyes and fail to see.’”

— Helen Keller

268. “The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.”

— Helen Keller

269. “I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.”

— Helen Keller

270. “The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.”

— Helen Keller

271. “Happiness is attained through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

— Helen Keller

272. “Security is a myth. Mankind as a whole does not experience it, nor does it exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

273. “I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.”

— Helen Keller

274. “The mind is as big as the universe.”

— Helen Keller

275. “It is by fighting the limitations, temptations, and failures of the world that we reach our highest possibilities.”

— Helen Keller

276. “Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.”

— Helen Keller

277. “First – How did I become a Socialist? By reading.”

— Helen Keller

278. “Any teacher can take a child to the classroom, but not every teacher can make him learn.”

— Helen Keller

279. “Out of the uncharted, unthinkable dark we came, And in a little time we shall return again Into the vast, unanswering dark.”

— Helen Keller

280. “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.”

— Helen Keller

281. “We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.”

— Helen Keller

282. “Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!”

— Helen Keller

283. “I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.”

— Helen Keller

284. “The day is ours, and what the day has shown.”

— Helen Keller

285. “The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.”

— Helen Keller

286. “The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.”

— Helen Keller

287. “I think the degree of a nation’s civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.”

— Helen Keller

288. “I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.”

— Helen Keller

289. “Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.”

— Helen Keller

290. “We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.”

— Helen Keller

291. “Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister’s hand.”

— Helen Keller

292. “For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to – a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.”

— Helen Keller

293. “One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”

— Helen Keller

294. “I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.”

— Helen Keller

295. “The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.”

— Helen Keller

296. “To be banished from Rome is but to live outside of Rome.”

— Helen Keller

297. “The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.”

— Helen Keller

298. “I used to feel along the square stiff boxwood hedges, and, guided by the sense of smell, would find the first violets and lilies.”

— Helen Keller

299. “This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.”

— Helen Keller

300. “I hung about the dangerous frontier of “guess,” avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.”

— Helen Keller