Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Most popular Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Age considers; youth ventures.
How beautiful is humble courtesy!
Those who own much have much to fear.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
We live in the world when we love it.
Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Pleasure is frail like dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.
God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
Blessed are those whose fame does not outshine their truth.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
We are like new born children, our power is the power to grow.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Depth of friendship does not depend upon length of acquaintance.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Butterflies count not months but moments, and yet have time enough.
Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand With a grip that kills it.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand a-tiptoe to peep at the heaven.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
The wise man is content with half a loaf, or any fraction for that matter, rather than no bread.
Music and art must have their prominent seats of honor, and not merely a tolerant nod of recognition.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
In the drowsy dark caves of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge vain wishes.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.
My heart today smiles at its past night of tears like a wet tree glistening in the sun after the rain is over.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust. God watches them play and forgets the priest.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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.
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.
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
If you sit down crying because the sun has set, you miss the privilege of seeing the stars. Sorrow for what you have lost should not make you neglect that which comes in its place.
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.
Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.
If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
