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Men Quotes by Helen Keller
- Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
- 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…
- A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
- God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
- 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…
- The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other…
- Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the…
- I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of…
- Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from…
- The inferiority of women is man-made.
- Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed,…
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is…
- 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…
- No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the…
- 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…
- Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental,…
- The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations,…
- Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty…
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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