Quote #3
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
More from Helen Keller
- The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. We sightless children had the best of eyes that day …
- We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which…
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- 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 op…
- Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no …
- I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats…