What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
Helen KellerRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
While science can address many problems, it cannot solve the indifference of people.
In this quote, Helen Keller highlights a critical insight regarding the limitations of scientific achievements. Although science has made significant progress in combating various physical ailments and societal issues, it remains powerless against the emotional and moral indifference that can persist within humanity. This apathy undermines efforts for positive change and is seen as the most significant challenge that cannot be overcome by scientific means alone.
Themes
ScienceApathyHumanityIndifferenceEmpathyChange
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of cultivating empathy in our communities.
More from Helen Keller
All quotes βWhat could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.
Helen KellerRead
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 KellerRead
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
Helen KellerRead
Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
Helen KellerRead
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen KellerRead
Similar quotes
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark TwainRead
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
Christopher MarloweRead
To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
Mahatma GandhiRead
I donβt believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.
Paulo CoelhoRead
If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajRead
The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.
Gautama BuddhaRead