Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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

Great, Humility, Nearest

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

Truth, Keep, Hand

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

Love, Nothing, Else

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Nature, Speak, Effort

Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Rabindranath Tagore

Music, Two, Between

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

God, Greater, Prove

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

Freedom, Tree, Soil

We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

Truth, Door, Shut

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore

Candle, Flame, Blowing

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

Truth, Wait, Speak

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Giving, Earn

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

Wisdom, Young, Speak

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore

Later, Ghost, Difficulty

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

Love, Truth, Law

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore

Envy, Single, Flower

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore

Self, Laugh, Burden

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom, Full, Paid

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

Art, Real, Soul

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Rabindranath Tagore

Art, Himself, Objects

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Speak, Effort, Earth

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Poet

Born: May 6, 1861

Died: August 7, 1941

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