Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes: 18

• There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

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

  The First and Last Freedom

• 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.

• 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.

  Education and the Significance of Life

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

• To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

• 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.

• We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

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

  Freedom from the Known

• Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

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

  Education and the Significance of Life

• 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.

  The Flight of the Eagle

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

  Education and the Significance of Life

• 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.

  The Flight of the Eagle

• The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

• In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.