Thinking Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no tranquility in ideas.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I do not think that you can try and systematize education for the whole world. I would try experiments in small communities…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti