What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Weitere Zitate von Helen Keller
Zum Autor"I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."
"Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: 'Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land.'."
"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."
"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."
"Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."