Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Age considers; youth ventures.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
– Rabindranath Tagore
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
– Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
– Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
– Rabindranath Tagore
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
– Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
– Rabindranath Tagore
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
– Rabindranath Tagore
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
– Rabindranath Tagore
We live in the world when we love it.
– Rabindranath Tagore
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
– Rabindranath Tagore
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
– Rabindranath Tagore
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Those who own much have much to fear.
– Rabindranath Tagore
The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.
– Rabindranath Tagore
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
– Rabindranath Tagore
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
– Rabindranath Tagore
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
– Rabindranath Tagore
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
– Rabindranath Tagore
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
– Rabindranath Tagore