746 Quotes by Helen Keller

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by theaggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.

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

Once I knew only darkness and stillness...my life was without past or future...but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.