Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

302. “The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

303. “I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and 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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

304. “The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

305. “For what are obstacles to the lower creatures are opportunities to the higher life of man.”

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306. “Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

307. “When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

308. “We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

309. “Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.”

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310. “Children are living beings – more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

311. “Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

312. “Man’s history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters.”

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313. “When a material body breaks it may be put together again. But when two human beings are divided, after a long separation, they never re-unite at the same place, and to the same time; for the mind is a living thing, and moment by moment it grows and changes.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

314. “The attitude of the God-conscious man of the Upanishad towards the universe is one of a deep feeling of adoration. His object of worship is present everywhere. It is the one living truth that makes all realities true. This truth is not only of knowledge but of devotion.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

315. “Wherever our heart touches the One, in the small or the big, it finds the touch of the infinite.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

316. “A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.”

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317. “A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

318. “Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment’s whim.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

319. “Let me light my lamp”, says the star, “And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

320. “April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

321. “My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.”

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322. “Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.”

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323. “I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things.”

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324. “It’s far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.”

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325. “By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.”

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326. “The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”

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327. “Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action – Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. This.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

328. “Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

329. “True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

330. “It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.”

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331. “The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.”

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332. “Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.”

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333. “THE mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.”

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334. “Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.”

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335. “The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.”

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336. “I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.”

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337. “And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

338. “Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.”

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339. “The increased facilities of communication and exchange of thought, the teachings of history, the unity of government, the rise of literature and the efforts of the Congress over a period of time have together begun to make us realize that we belong to one country and are one people; that whether in joy or in sorrow our destiny is one; and that we cannot prosper unless we discover the ties which make us one, and seek to strengthen them.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

340. “I touch God in my songas the hill touched the far-away seawith its waterfall.”

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341. “To the guests that must go, bid God’s speed and brush away all traces of their steps.”

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342. “Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”

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343. “If the day is done, if birds sing no more, if the wind has flagged tired, then draw the veil of darkness thick upon me, even as thou hast wrapt the earth with the coverlet of sleep and tenderly closed the petals of the drooping lotus at dusk. From the traveller, whose sack of provisions is empty before the voyage is ended, whose garment is torn and dustladen, whose strength is exhausted, remove shame and poverty, and renew his life like a flower under the cover of thy kindly night.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

344. “Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

345. “Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.”

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346. “Ask me no questions, and I will tell you no lies.”

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347. “58 One morning in the flower garden a blind girl came to offer me a flower chain in the cover of a lotus leaf. I put it round my neck, and tears came to my eyes. I kissed her and said, “You are blind even as the flowers are. You yourself know not how beautiful is your gift.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

348. “The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.”

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349. “Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.”

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350. “The civilisation of the West has in it the spirit of the machine which must move; and to that blind movement human lives are offered as fuel, keeping up the steam-power. It represents the active aspect of inertia which has the appearance of freedom, but not its truth, and therefore gives rise to slavery both within its boundaries and outside.”

— Rabindranath Tagore