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Knowledge Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- 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…
- . . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
- You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's…
- Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.
- Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world…
- 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…
- When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
- Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It…
- We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or…
- Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
- Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.
- Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity…
- 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…
- Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?
- Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.
- Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.
- Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
- How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of…
- 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…
- If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill…
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- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong