Occupation: Author Birth: June 27, 1880 Death: June 1, 1968
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people..
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kin….
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless..
What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision..
The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present soci….
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun..
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others..
I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden..
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious..
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow..
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree..
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life..
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle..
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been w….
Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing..
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….
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not ….
If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!.
The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists..
He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower..
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it….