“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
“The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them...."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"The false can never grow into truth by growing in power."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"Those who own much have much to fear."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"Facts are many, but the truth is one."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)