Anne Sullivan Quotes

American - Educator | April 14, 1866 - October 20, 1936

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

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My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

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Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

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I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

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The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

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I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

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I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

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It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

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We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

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