Top 440 Quotes & Sayings by Rabindranath Tagore
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Age considers; youth ventures.
Those who own much have much to fear.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
We live in the world when we love it.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.
A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.
Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.
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