Helen Keller Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Moving, Twilight

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.106, 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

• We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

  Helen Keller

  Appreciation, Ignorance, Self

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.190, Book Tree

• It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.
  There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Business, Mistake

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

• There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  Helen Keller

  Ignorance, Optimism, Indifference

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Ignorance, Humanity

• Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

  Helen Keller

  Ignorance, Light, Greed

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