Rabindranath Tagore Quotes on Freedom
Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian poet, philosopher, musician, and educator and the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. This page collects quotes attributed to Rabindranath Tagore on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
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Attributed to Rabindranath Tagore:
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.”
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“It was indeed a great day not only for the Sikhs but also for the whole of India when Guru Govinda , defying the age-long conventions of the Hindu society, made his followers one, by breaking down all barriers of caste and thereby made them free to inherit the true blessings of a self-respecting manhood. Sikhism has a brave message to the people and it has a noble record.”
Letter to Mahadevi Desai, 4 January 1937. Quoted in The Essential Tagore , Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. -
“(free translation from original Bengali in Tagore’s Collected Works, vol. 9, 4971: 512). Quoted from Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.”
When such imagination and sympathy are essential to write India’s history, We cannot depend on others. There is no objection to receiving, help from others when it comes to the collection of facts, but to weave these facts into a whole and make them alive we have to use our own strength. If Indians write the history of India there is some chance of partisanship or bias, but it is contempt and lack