Rabindranath Tagore quotes

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“We live in the world when we love it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Those who own much have much to fear.”

— 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

“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore