Famous Quotes

Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

• Age considers youth ventures.
• Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
• Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
• By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
• Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
• 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.
• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
• Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
• Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
• Facts are many, but the truth is one.
• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
• From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
• I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
• If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
• Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
• Music fills the infinite between two souls.
• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
• 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.
• Those who own much have much to fear.
• To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
• 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.