Quote

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

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
Failing
Worst
Eyes
Eye
Calamity
Fail

More quotes by Helen Keller

Image
I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
Helen Keller
Image
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything it is he who gets the most out of life.
Helen Keller
Image
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.
Helen Keller
Image
All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
Helen Keller
Image
Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.
Helen Keller
Image
The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
Helen Keller
Image
Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
Helen Keller
Image
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
Helen Keller
Image
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
Helen Keller
Image
Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
Helen Keller
Image
The inferiority of women is man-made.
Helen Keller
Image
Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
Helen Keller
Image
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller
Image
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
Helen Keller
Image
I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!
Helen Keller
Image
It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
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
Image
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
Helen Keller
Image
I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
Helen Keller
Image
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Helen Keller