Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

“Age considers youth ventures.”

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

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Those who own much have much to fear.”

“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

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

“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Music fills the infinite between two souls.”

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

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

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

“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”

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

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

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

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

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

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