Helen Keller

More from Helen Keller

• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

  Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)

  • Beauty

• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

  • Friendship

• The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.

  Optimism (1903)

  • Hope

All 27 quotes from Helen Keller

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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