746 Quotes by Helen Keller

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

Science 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.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, – the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.