Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

Topics: Truth Quotes

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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

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

I miss the meaning of my own part in the play of life because I...

I miss the meaning of my own part in the play of life because I...

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust,...

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust,...

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that...

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that...

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the...

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the...

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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

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

We live in the world when we love it.

We live in the world when we love it.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was...

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was...

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought...

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought...

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of...

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of...

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of...

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of...

Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars...

Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars...

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive...

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive...

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.