"When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself."
Read quote
10 likes
Quote collection
Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes (page 12 of 32)
628 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible."
Read quote
10 likes
"Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth."
Read quote
10 likes
"Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment."
Read quote
10 likes
"It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression ."
Read quote
10 likes
"It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline."
Read quote
10 likes
"We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform."
Read quote
10 likes
"You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this."
Read quote
10 likes
"The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life."
Read quote
10 likes
"Happy is the man who is nothing."
Read quote
10 likes
"Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace."
Read quote
10 likes
"We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom."
Read quote
10 likes
"Analysis does not transform consciousness."
Read quote
10 likes
"It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood."
Read quote
10 likes
"Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting."
Read quote
10 likes
"The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is."
Read quote
10 likes
"You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself."
Read quote
10 likes
"We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study."
Read quote
9 likes
"The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words."
Read quote
9 likes
"It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight."
Read quote
9 likes