Quotes by Helen Keller

About Helen Keller:

Helen Adams Keller is now a museum and sponsors an annual "Helen Keller Day". Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people...

Helen Keller

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, & every war has to me the horror od a family feud. I look upon the true patriotism as the brotherhood of man & the service to of all to all. The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world to...

Helen Keller

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, & every war has to me the horror of a family feud. I look upon true patriotism as the brotherhood of man & the service of all to all. The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world toward li...

Helen Keller

I realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far in spite of them. & now I am in the fight to change things. I may be a dreamer, but dreamers are necessary to make facts!

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Helen Keller

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.

Helen Keller

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

In a word, 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. The things I have learned and the thin...

Helen Keller

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be...

Helen Keller

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Helen Keller

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

Helen Keller

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Helen Keller

i also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

Helen Keller

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a n...

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There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperament...

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Author Bio

  • NameHelen Keller
  • DescriptionAmerican author, political activist, and lecturer
  • AliasesHelen Adams Keller
  • BornJune 27, 1880
  • DiedJune 1, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Orator; Essayist; Activist; Suffrage Activist (female)
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom; National Women's Hall Of Fame