Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

205. “There is no tranquility in ideas.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

206. “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.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

207. “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

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— 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. “Peace is of the heart, not of the mind. To know peace you have to find out what beauty is.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

216. “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

217. “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

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

221. “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

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

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223. “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

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

226. “The significance of life is living.”

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

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230. “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

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. “Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

233. “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

234. “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

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

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238. “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

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

240. “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.”

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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242. “That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.”

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243. “You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

244. “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.”

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245. “The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.”

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246. “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

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

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248. “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.”

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249. “Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing.”

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250. “Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti