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.
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Helen Keller
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

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

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

Helen Keller

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Helen Keller
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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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

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

Helen Keller

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