Helen Keller Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

• I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Wisdom, Peace

• When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Sympathy, Grief

• With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Death, Taken

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

• I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

  Helen Keller

  Stupid, Mean, Bores You

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

• ...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Understanding, Depth, Literature

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.63, Om Books International

• Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Giving, Understanding, Give Me

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