Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

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

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155. “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?”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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157. “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

158. “As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

159. “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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160. “So through identification you have pleasure and pain.”

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161. “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

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

164. “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

165. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.”

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176. “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.”

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

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178. “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

179. “The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.”

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180. “If you want to understand the beauty of a bird, a fly, or a leaf, or a person with all his complexities, you have to give your whole attention which is awareness. And you can give your whole attention only when you care, which means that you really love to understand – then you give your whole heart and mind to find out.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

181. “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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182. “Most people like to live in illusions.”

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

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

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185. “The thought is not the thing.”

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186. “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.”

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

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188. “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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189. “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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190. “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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191. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.”

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192. “Truth is something which you must see immediately, and to see something clearly you must give your heart, mind and whole being.”

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193. “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.”

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194. “Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.”

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195. “There is no tranquility in ideas.”

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196. “Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.”

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

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198. “Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.”

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199. “Most of us are frightened of dying because we don’t know what it means to live. We don’t know how to live, therefore we don’t know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.”

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200. “The ambitious man has never found his true vocation...”

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