Rabindranath Tagore Quotes and Sayings

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

You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

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.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Let life be as beautiful as summer flowers And death as beautiful as autumn leaves.

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

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

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears.