746 Quotes by Helen Keller

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.