Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe mind has to be empty to see clearly.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
-
-
From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI






