Helen Keller Quotes

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”-Helen Keller
Quote Read: 6/22/18

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

A tangible object passes complete into my brain with the warmth of life upon it, and occupies the same place that it does in space; for, without egotism, the mind is as large as the universe.

No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit

Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Най-хубавите и най-красиви неща в света не могат да се видят или пипнат. Те трябва да бъдат усетени със сърцето.

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

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.

اعتقد اننا وضعنا أمامنا هدفا بعيد المنال مما جعلنا نخفق فى تحقيقة

In college, there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures–solitude, books and imagination–outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

There are times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost. ... When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use. At the present time my mind is so full of heterogeneous matter that I almost despair of ever being able to put it in order. Whenever I enter the region of my mind I feel like the proverbial bull in the china shop. A thousand odds and ends of knowledge come crashing about my head like hailstones, and when I try to escape them, theme goblins and college nixies of all sorts pursue me, until I wish – oh, may I be forgiven the wicked wish! – that I might smash the idols I came to worship.