What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
Helen KellerRead
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Toleration is a valuable intellectual quality that promotes understanding and peace.
Helen Keller suggests that the ability to tolerate others' differences and perspectives is a profound intellectual gift that enhances relationships and fosters harmony. Toleration allows individuals to embrace diversity and coexist peacefully, reflecting wisdom and maturity in one's thinking.
Themes
TolerationGiftMindUnderstandingWisdom
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about promoting peace, one might quote Keller to highlight the importance of understanding differences.
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
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair
Richard John NeuhausRead
I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful.
John F. KerryRead
The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.
Jesse Lauriston LivermoreRead
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.
Elizabeth GilbertRead
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.
Jim RohnRead
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
George Bernard ShawRead