Helen Keller Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Voice, Humanity

• Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Happy, Education

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

• Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Mean, Self

• Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

  Helen Keller

  Humanity, Poverty, Causes

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.77, American Foundation for the Blind

• History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Ignorance, Humanity

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