Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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Kolkata (GaeaTimes.com) Rabindranath Tagore is a renowned Bengali polymath and his birthday is celebrated as Rabindra Jayanti by all Rabindranath lovers around the world. Rabindra Jayanti is celebrated according to the Bengali calendar’s Poncheeshe Boishakh or the 25th day of the first month of the Bengali calendar. It is generally observed on 8th or 9th may every year. It is celebrated to pay homage to the great scholar of Kolkata, India. The Nobel laureate poet, writer, philosopher was an ambassador of Indian culture to the rest of the world. He was the first person to be awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1913. Here are some of his famous quotes.

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While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

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

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The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.

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

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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

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

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

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

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God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

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Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

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Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

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We never can have a true view of man unless we have a love for him. Civilization must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity.

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door - or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

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God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

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My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

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When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

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In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.