Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
