Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as s… - Helen Keller

" "
Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American writer and social activist; an illness (possibly scarlet fever or meningitis) at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Helen Adams Keller

All quotes from Helen Keller Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Helen Keller:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maya Angelou Hermann Hesse Rabindranath Tagore Ralph Waldo Emerson

Additional quotes by Helen Keller

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

But there is not space to mention all my friends and indeed there are things about them hidden behind the wings of the cherubim, things to sacred to set forth in cold print.

Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.

Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women eve… - Helen Keller

About Helen Keller

Also Known As

Additional quotes by Helen Keller