A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore

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


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

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

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

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

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
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

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

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.
Rabindranath Tagore