Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes

Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer, known for his teachings on psychological revolution and freedom from all authority. His work encouraged individuals to inquire deeply into their own minds and challenge established beliefs. He inspired people worldwide to seek truth through direct observation and self-awareness. Here are 282 of his quotes:

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only the free mind knows what Love is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is it possible to observe without the observer?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

Jiddu Krishnamurti