Helen Keller Quotes (127 quotes)
![]() | “I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” ―Helen Keller Source/Notes: Quoted in Henry More: The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Plattonist (1962) by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, page 100. |
![]() | “No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ―Helen Keller Source/Notes: Helen Adams Keller (p. 60. Helen Keller's Journal: 1936-1937, Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1938) |
![]() | “The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.” ―Helen Keller Source/Notes: The Story of My Life (1903) |
![]() | “I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.” ―Helen Keller Source/Notes: The Story of My Life (1903) |
![]() | “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.” ―Helen Keller Source/Notes: Part III, Ch. 2: Personality - The Story of My Life (1903) |
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Helen Keller
Born: June 27, 1880
Died: June 1, 1968 (aged 87)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author
Bio: Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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