Helen Keller Quotes About Blindness

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal than this race for profit, or competition.

The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus – the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thought astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

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 in our hearts and in our finger-tips. We were glad from the child’s necessity of being happy. The blind who have outgrown the child’s perpetual joy can be children again on Christmas Day and celebrate in the midst of them who pipe and dance and sing a new song!

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

People often express surprise that I can enjoy nature when I cannot see its beauties or hear its harmonies. But really it is they who are-blind. For they have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.