Helen Keller People Quotations

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

We should respect all people.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

I never fight, except against difficulties.