Rabindranath Tagore – 35 Quotes

35 Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

Age considers, youth ventures.

– Rabindranath Tagore

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– 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

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.

– Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

– Rabindranath Tagore

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– 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

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– 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

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

– 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

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

– 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

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

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

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

– 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