Quote

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

Helen Keller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Linguist
Orator
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
Writer
Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
Looks
Fancy
Years
Across
Present
Fact
Facts
Past
Link
Find
Links
Look
Alike

More quotes by Helen Keller

Image
Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
Helen Keller
Image
Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
Helen Keller
Image
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller
Image
The inferiority of women is man-made.
Helen Keller
Image
Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
Image
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Image
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
Helen Keller
Image
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen Keller
Image
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulty.
Helen Keller
Image
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
Helen Keller
Image
I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.
Helen Keller
Image
Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.
Helen Keller
Image
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller
Image
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
Helen Keller
Image
The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'
Helen Keller
Image
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.
Helen Keller
Image
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
Helen Keller
Image
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller
Image
We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.
Helen Keller
Image
They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.
Helen Keller