Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

The homeland is not the land. However, the men whom the land nourishes are the homeland.

Set in gold the bird's wings, and it will never fly to the sky again.

Men are cruel, but man is good.

Acknowledge the flame for its light, but do not forget the patient candlestick that holds it.

Man enters the crowd to drown the clamor of his own silence.

A sharp understanding without greatness punctures everything, but moves nothing.

The facts are many, but the truth is one.

The words go to the heart when they have come from the heart.

The bird would like to be a cloud; the cloud, a bird.

The wise one warns us that life is just a dewdrop on a lotus leaf.

The roots beneath the earth do not ask for reward for making the branches bear fruit.

The truth arrives as a conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as a guest.