At first I was rather unwilling to study Latin grammar. It seemed absurd to waste time analyzing every word I came across – noun, genitive, singular, feminine – when its meaning was quite plain. I thought I might just as well describe my pet in order to know it – order, vertebrate; division, quadruped; class, mammalia; genus, felinus; species, cat; individual, Tabby. But as I got deeper into the subject, I became more interested, and the beauty of the language delighted me.

— Helen Keller

Helen Keller Quotes

I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one’s thoughts.

— Helen Keller

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

— Helen Keller

T he test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.

— Helen Keller

But there is not space to mention all my friends and indeed there are things about them hidden behind the wings of the cherubim, things to sacred to set forth in cold print.

— Helen Keller

The poets have taught us how full of wonders is the night; and the night of blindness has its wonders, too. The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond our senses.

— Helen Keller

With a feeling of intense disgust you kick the mass of rubbish into a corner and go home, your head full of revolutionary schemes to abolish the divine right of professors to ask questions without the consent of the questioned.

— Helen Keller

It is an unspeakable boon to me to be able to speak in winged words that need no interpretation.

— Helen Keller

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence...

— Helen Keller

My work was practice, practice, practice. Discouragement and weariness cast me down frequently; but the next moment the thought that I should soon be at home and show my loved ones what I had accomplished spurred me on, and I eagerly looked forward to their pleasure in my achievement.

— Helen Keller

The German puts strength before beauty, and truth before convention, both in life and in literature. There is a vehement, sledge-hammer vigour about everything that he does. When he speaks, it is not to impress others, but because his heart would burst if he did not find an outlet for the thoughts that burn in his soul. Then, too, there is in German literature a fine reserve which I like; but its chief glory is the recognition I find in it of the redeeming potency.

— Helen Keller

I used to feel along the square stiff boxwood hedges, and, guided by the sense of smell, would find the first violets and lilies.

— Helen Keller

As I wander through the dark, encountering difficulties, I am aware of encouraging voices that murmur from the spirit realm. I sense a holy passion pouring down from the springs of Infinity. I thrill to music that beats with the pulses of God. Bound to suns and planets by invisible cords, I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

— Helen Keller

History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.

— Helen Keller

You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds.

— Helen Keller

I was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama.

— Helen Keller

Character is not achieved by ease and quiet, it develops through trial and suffering.

— Helen Keller

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

— Helen Keller

The thought that my dear Heavenly Father is always near, giving me abundantly of all those things, which truly enrich life and make it sweet and beautiful, makes every deprivation seem of little moment compared with the countless blessings I enjoy.

— Helen Keller

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
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