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
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.
The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.