Education
Helen Keller attended the Perkins School for the Blind. In 1894, Helen and Anne moved to New York City to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf and Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896 they returned to Massachusetts and Helen entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College. In 1904 at the age of 24, Helen graduated from Radcliffe magna cum laude, becoming the first deaf and blind person to graduate from a college.
她的名言
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Helen_Keller/Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Helen Keller
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Keller
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
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.
Helen Keller
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Helen Keller
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Keller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)