RABINDRANATH TAGORE QUOTES

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian Bengali polymath. He also known as Rabi Thakur, was a Bengali philosopher, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.

1 - A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

2 - Age considers; youth ventures.

3 - Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

4 - Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

5 - By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

6 - Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

7 - Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

8 - Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

9 - 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.

10 - Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

11 - Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

12 - Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

13 - Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

14 - Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

15 - Facts are many, but the truth is one.

16 - Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

17 - From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

18 - Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

19 - He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

20 - 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.

21 - I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

22 - If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

23 - In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

24 - Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

25 - Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

26 - Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

27 - Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

28 - Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

29 - Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

30 - Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

31 - Music fills the infinite between two souls.

32 - Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

33 - The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

34 - The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

35 - The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

36 - The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

37 - 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.

38 - Those who own much have much to fear.

39 - To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

40 - Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

41 - Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

42 - We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

43 - We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

44 - We live in the world when we love it.

45 - What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

46 - You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

47 - Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

48 - The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

49 - Our fight is a spiritual fight, it is for Man.

50 - I say again and again that I am a poet, that I am not a fighter by nature. I would give everything to be one with my surroundings. I love my fellow beings and I prize their love.

51 - Creation is an endless activity of God's freedom; it is an end in itself.

52 - Freedom is true when it is a revelation of truth.

53 - India has ever declared that Unity is Truth, and separateness is maya.

54 - I believe in the true meeting of the East and the West.

55 - It hurts me deeply when the cry of rejection rings loud against the West in my country with the clamour that the Western education can only injure us.

56 - That which fails to illuminate the intellect, and only keeps it in the obsession of some delusion, is its greatest obstacle.

57 - After sixty years of self-experience, I have found that out and out hypocrisy is an almost impossible achievement.

58 - Our country is the land of rites and ceremonials, so that we have more faith in worshiping the feet of the priest than the Divinity whom he serves.

59 - The religion of economics is where we should above all try to bring about this union of ours ... If this field ceases to be one of warfare, if there we can prove, that not competition but cooperation is
the real truth, then indeed we can reclaim from the hands of the Evil
One an immense territory for the reign of peace and goodwill.

60 - I have no zeal for life. You know the only thing that concerns me? That I have laboured so hard to build Viswabharati, wouldn't it have no value after my exit? ... I think I have one reservation regarding
death, and that is Viswabharati, nothing else.

61 - It's difficult to know a person until he turns twenty-five---difficult to say what would happen to him ... but it is easy to recognise a twenty seven years old--- it can be said he's become
what he's supposed to be, and from now on this is how his life would be
guided, there's in left anything in his life to get astonished.

62 - To enjoy something, it's essential to guard it with the fence of leisure.

An inspirational verse from a poem by Rabindranath Tagore: Where The Mind Is Without Fear Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of Truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action; Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake...