Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Age considers; youth ventures.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
Objects of knowledge maintain an infinite distance from us who are the knowers. For knowledge is not union. Therefore the further world of freedom awaits us there where we reach truth, not through feeling it by senses or knowing it by reason, but thr
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for reality is not based in the substance of things but in the principle of relationship. Truth is the infinite pursued by metaphysics; fact is the infinite p
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.
The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.
