Helen Keller Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Book, Here I Am

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.74, Courier Corporation

• I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

  Helen Keller

  Book, Ignorance, Eye

• College isn't the place to go for ideas.

  Helen Keller

  Graduation, Witty, Educational

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Sweet, Book

  "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 21), 1903.

• More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

  Helen Keller

  Book, Fall, Hands

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.1, NYU Press

• Literature is my Utopia

  Helen Keller

  Book, Reading, Literature

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.65, 谷月社

• True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

  Helen Keller

  Teaching, Reading, Book

• I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

  Helen Keller

  Book, Eye, Ears

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.57, 谷月社

• I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

  Helen Keller

  Book, Remember, Has Beens

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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