Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

203. “Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

206. “Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

207. “There is no tranquility in ideas.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

208. “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.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

210. “You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

211. “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.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

212. “My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

215. “Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

216. “There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is “being free.””

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

217. “The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

220. “To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

221. “Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

222. “It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

223. “When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren’t you separating yourself?”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

224. “Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

225. “Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

226. “The significance of life is living.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

227. “The bliss of truth comes when the mind is not occupied with its own activities and struggles.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

228. “If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

229. “I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

230. “You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

231. “What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

232. “If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

233. “Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

234. “Teaching is the noblest profession – if it can be called a profession at all. It is an art that requires, not just intellectual attainments, but infinite patience and love.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

235. “A mind that is innocent means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. Because it is incapable of being hurt, it will not hurt another.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

236. “Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

237. “Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

238. “Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

239. “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

240. “There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

241. “Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

242. “The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

243. “Those who play a safe game die very safely.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

244. “Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.”

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245. “The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

246. “Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

247. “In the denial of disorder there is order.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

248. “Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.”

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249. “When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

250. “There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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