Helen Keller Quotes - Page 2

American - Author June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968

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

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

Vision, World, Sight, Person, Someone

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

Stars, Spirit, Land, Human Spirit, New

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller

Success, Happiness, Happy, Joy, You

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller

Book, I Am, Sweet, Friends, Me, Talk

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller

Brainy, Soar, Never, Consent, Creep

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. Helen Keller

Experience, Joy, Dark, Lose, Overcome

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

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

Nothing, Hard, Everything, Interest, Who

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. - Helen Keller

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

Sight, Most, Senses, Must, Delightful

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

Worst, Apathy, Human, Cure, May, Most

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

Beautiful, Heart, World, Most Beautiful

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller

Great, Small, Long, Accomplish, Duty

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller

Happiness, Purpose, True Happiness, True

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. Helen Keller

Mountains, God, Sky, Religion, Climb, Me

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 men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. Helen Keller

Time, Good, Religion, Men, People, Devil

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. Helen Keller

Experience, People, Short, Look, Know

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. - Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. Helen Keller

Happiness, Right, Without, Producing

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

Science, Worst, Apathy, Human, Cure, May

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

World, Eagle, Skill, Own, Hand, Arrow

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. - Helen Keller

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Helen Keller

Age, Next, Heresy, Orthodoxy, Becomes

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. - Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. Helen Keller

Vision, See, Terrible, Terrible Thing

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. Helen Keller

Great, Travel, Door, Goal, Forward, Go

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. Helen Keller

Teacher, Self, Blind, Person, Needs

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

Effort, Balance, Gift, Mind, Brain, Same

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 great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. Helen Keller

Great, Men, More, Compare, Majority, Who

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

You, Smell, Lived, Years, Miles, Wizard

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

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

Saying, Done, Cannot, Themselves, Among

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