“If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.”

— Helen Keller, Letter to Mrs. Laurence Hutton, Part II: Letters (1898)

About Helen Keller

1880 – 1968

American author and activist, deaf and blind from infancy, author of "The Story of My Life".

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.”

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

“I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.”

“Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you.”

“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

“Ambition raises a secret tumult in the soul, it inflames the mind, and puts it into a violent hurry of thought.”