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.
Weitere Zitate von Helen Keller
Zum Autor"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."
"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained."
"[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
"It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…."
"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."