Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.

We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.