746 Quotes by Helen Keller

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

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

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

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

It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.