What does it mean?
The things that matter most, like love, hope and friendship, are not objects. You know them through your feelings, not your eyes or hands. Keller, who was deaf and blind, was repeating what her teacher, Anne Sullivan, had told her.
Who said it?
Helen Keller: American author and disability rights activist (1880–1968). Source: letter to Phillips Brooks (1891), in The Story of My Life (1903).
More quotes by Helen Keller
All 6- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”– 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
- “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”– Helen Keller
- “Literature is my Utopia.”– Helen Keller