Free Printable Quotations - Listed Alphabetically by Author Name - English - Social Studies

Helen KELLER: Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen KELLER: Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen KELLER: People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Helen KELLER: The highest result of education is tolerance.

B.B. KING: More than anything else, it is important to study history.

Martin Luther KING, Jr.: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther KING, Jr.: Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther KING, Jr.: The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther KING, Jr.: One day the South will recognize its real heroes.

Martin Luther KING, Jr.: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.