Quotes By Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.