Let the most romantic of us that has been entertained all night with the spectacle of some wild and magnificent vision, re-combine it in the morning and try it by his waking judgment. That which appeared so shifting and yet so coherent, when it came under cool examination, shall appear so reasonless and so unlinked, that we are ashamed to have been so deluded, and to have taken, though but in sleep, a monster for a god.

— Helen Keller

Helen Keller Quotes

Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

— Helen Keller

How easy it is to fly on paper wings!

— Helen Keller

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends.

— Helen Keller

Security is a myth. Mankind as a whole does not experience it, nor does it exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

— Helen Keller

God is love, God is our Father, and we are His children; therefore the darkest clouds will break, and though right be worsted, wrong shall not triumph.

— Helen Keller

Each individual has a subconscious memory of the green earth and murmuring waters, and blindness and deafness cannot rob him of this gift from past generations. This inherited capacity is a sort of sixth sense- a soul sense which sees, hears, and feels, all in one.

— Helen Keller

Once, while we were out on the water, the sun went down over the rim of the earth, and threw a soft, rosy light over the White City.

— Helen Keller

One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think.

— Helen Keller

Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

— Helen Keller

But in this respect I do not think I am much worse off than the girls who take notes. If the mind is occupied with the mechanical process of hearing and putting words on paper at pell-mell speed, I should not think one could pay much attention to the subject under consideration or the manner in which it is presented.

— Helen Keller

Even notoriety may be turned to beneficent uses, and I rejoice if the disposition of the newspapers to record my activities results in bringing more often into their columns the word Socialism.

— Helen Keller

First – How did I become a Socialist? By reading.

— Helen Keller

Any teacher can take a child to the classroom, but not every teacher can make him learn.

— Helen Keller

Out of the uncharted, unthinkable dark we came, And in a little time we shall return again Into the vast, unanswering dark.

— Helen Keller

One brief spring, musical with the song of robin and mocking-bird, one summer rich in fruit and roses, one autumn of gold and crimson sped by and left their gifts at the feet of an eager, delighted child.

— Helen Keller

It were better far to sail forever in the night of blindness, with sense and feeling and mind, than to be thus content with the mere act of seeing. They have the sunset, the morning skies, the purple of distant hills, yet their souls voyage through this enchanted world with a barren stare.

— Helen Keller

Let the most romantic of us that has been entertained all night with the spectacle of some wild and magnificent vision, re-combine it in the morning and try it by his waking judgment. That which appeared so shifting and yet so coherent, when it came under cool examination, shall appear so reasonless and so unlinked, that we are ashamed to have been so deluded, and to have taken, though but in sleep, a monster for a god.

— Helen Keller

We have seen that the world’s philosophers – the Sayers of the Word – were optimists; so also are the men of action and achievement – the Doers of the Word.

— Helen Keller

Optimism is the harmony between man’s spirit and the spirit of God pronouncing His works good.

— Helen Keller

I am content that others should be wiser than I.

— Helen Keller
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