746 Quotes by Helen Keller

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.