Helen Keller

Helen Keller
Helen Adams Kellerwas an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth27 June 1880
CityTuscumbia, AL
CountryUnited States of America
I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.
Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
I never fight, except against difficulties.
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.
To get Congress to do anything.
The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
I will eat grandfather for dinner.
The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.
My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do,