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Learning 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…
- It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is…
- So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have…
- The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive…
- Learning is the very essence of humility . . .
- The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.
- Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.
- Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
- Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.
- Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation,…
- There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life,…
- In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your…
- So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what…
- Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
- When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see…
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