Source: Sadhana
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Famous Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Source: Stray Birds
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
“A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.”
Source: Lectures, addresses
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
“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.”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
Source: Poems
Source: Essays
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
Source: Poems
Source: Poems
“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”
Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life
“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”
“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”
Source: Poems
“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”
“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”
Source: Poems
“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”
Source: Stray Birds
“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
“The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.”
“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”
Source: Poems
“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
Source: Poems
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
Source: Stray Birds
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
Source: Poems
Source: Poems
“No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.”
Source: Essays, lectures, addresses
Source: Glimpses of Bengal: Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895
Source: Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany