Helen Keller

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

Helen Keller

Education

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision."

Helen Keller

Various

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Helen Keller

Power and Weakness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Helen Keller

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

Helen Keller

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

Helen Keller

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

Helen Keller

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."

Helen Keller

History and Nations

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good."

Helen Keller "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

Good and Evil

Happiness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Helen Keller

Happiness

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life."

Helen Keller "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

Happiness

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"To know the history of philosophy is to know that the highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists."

Helen Keller

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

Helen Keller

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."

Helen Keller

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do."

Helen Keller

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

Helen Keller

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy."

Helen Keller

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."

Helen Keller "The Simplest Way to be Happy"

Happiness

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Helen Keller

Happiness

Loyalty and Betrayal

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)