Learning Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

This is what I am, and I am going to understand this.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If I condemn something, I do not understand it.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“But self-knowledge cannot be imposed, understanding cannot be compelled; and if this is a vital problem to you and me, to the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The average person wastes his life. He has a great deal of energy but he wastes it. The life of an average…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Words entangle. But if one can understand the whole significance of the ways of one's thought, the ways of our desires and…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti