Quotes About Blindness and Vision

Animals

"A guide dog is almost equal in many ways to giving a blind man sight itself. "

Britain's first recipient of a seeing eye dog, 1931

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

Helen Keller

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

Helen Keller

"I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world."

Helen Keller

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."

Helen Keller

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark."

Helen Keller

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

Mark Twain

"I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear."

Ray Charles

"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision."

Stevie Wonder

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark."

Helen Keller

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

Helen Keller