Rabindranath Tagore

“By the help of science we are getting a freer and freer outlook upon life. The savage state has been transcended.”

“Things are what they are because of their relations to other things; we cannot understand the world by isolating ourselves from it.”

“Music fills the infinite between two souls.”

“We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.”

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

“Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.”

“The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume.”

“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.”

“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.”

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

“Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.”

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; where knowledge is free.”

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

“Asks the Possible to the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling-place?' 'In the dreams of the impotent,' comes the answer.”

“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart.”

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

“The fish in the water is silent, the animal 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.”