Skip to content

If I draw a conclusion, I act on an idea, on an image, on a symbol, which is the structure of thought, and so I am constantly preventing myself from having insight, from understanding things as they are.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti On Mind and Thought (1993)

Another quote →

Topics

Knowledge

More quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living.

The Urgency of Change (1970)

There is inattention and rare attention and we are trying to bridge the one to the other.

As a tree that is not pliable breaks in the storm, so a man who has specialized breaks down in moments of crisis.

The very nature of intelligence is sensitivity, and this sensitivity is love.

Letters to the Schools (1981)

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" — there is only observation taking place.

All Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes →

You may also like

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Julian Assange

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Jiddu Krishnamurti (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.