Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit — the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

Rabindranath is the greatest man I have had the privilege to know. There has been no one like him anywhere on our globe for many centuries.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Knowledge is partial, because our intellect is an instrument, it is only a part of us, it can give us information about things which can be divided and analysed, and whose properties can be classified part by part. But Brahma is perfect, and knowledge which is partial can never be a knowledge of him.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service is joy.

The development of intelligence and physical power is equally necessary in animals and men for their purposes of living; but what is unique in man is the development of his consciousness which gradually deepens and widens the realization of his immortal being, the perfect, the eternal.

It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

I touch God in my song
as the hill touched the far-away sea
with its waterfall.

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

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.