Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

… let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

Differences

Personality

Race

[The poets’ role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

Air

Giving

Voice

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

Butterfly

Flower

Nature

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

Inspirational

Integrity

Memories

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

Education

Reading

Writing

A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, ‘I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.’ It says, ‘Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.

Dream

Song

Years

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

Hands

Inspirational

Knives

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.

Light

Teacher

Teaching

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

Ifs

Knows

According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and there

Inspiration

Law

Views

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Acceptance

Accomplishment

Achievement

Acquire

Action

Activity

Adults

Adventure

Afterlife

Age

Aging

Agony

Air

Aliens

Allies

Ambition

Anchors

Animal

Animal Cruelty

Answers

Apology

Appetite

April

Art

Artist

Ashamed

Aspiration

Attitude

Autumn

Baby

Be Brave

Be Good

Beach

Beautiful

Beauty

Begging

Being Alone

Being Single

Being True

Believe

Beloved

Bird

Birth

Birthday

Blame

Blessed

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Blooming

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Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

… let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

[The poets’ role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

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

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

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

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

According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and there

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