Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

152. “If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

153. “Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

154. “Can thought be silent?”

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155. “The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”

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156. “All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

157. “A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”

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158. “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

159. “Isn’t the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.”

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160. “And as we are – the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

161. “What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.”

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162. “If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities – would there be these separations?”

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163. “The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.”

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164. “Most people like to live in illusions.”

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165. “So through identification you have pleasure and pain.”

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166. “Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial – which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

167. “Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.”

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168. “It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.”

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169. “Love, and don’t be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.”

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170. “We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.”

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171. “Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.”

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172. “The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.”

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173. “Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.”

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174. “And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”

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175. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.”

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176. “When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.”

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177. “Learning implies a mind that doesn’t know.”

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178. “If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.”

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179. “Till the false is seen as false, truth is not.”

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180. “Such awareness is like living with a snake in the room; you watch its every movement, you are very, very sensitive to the slightest sound it makes. Such a state of attention is total energy; in such awareness the totality of yourself is revealed in an instant.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

181. “Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.”

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182. “Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.”

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183. “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.”

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184. “To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.”

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185. “Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.”

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186. “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.”

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187. “We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree.”

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188. “The thought is not the thing.”

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189. “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.”

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190. “Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.”

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191. “It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.”

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192. “The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

193. “It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.”

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194. “The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.”

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195. “When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.”

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196. “Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don’t know where it will take you.”

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197. “Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.”

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198. “Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.”

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199. “Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.”

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200. “All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.”

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