746 Quotes by Helen Keller

Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

I don't want peace that passeth understanding, I want understanding which bringeth peace.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

My friends have made the story of my life.

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

We 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.