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Thinking Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude…
- Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
- Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is…
- True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then…
- Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be…
- The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is…
- Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.
- If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.
- Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.
- Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
- There is no tranquility in ideas.
- Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.
- After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?
- I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem. But, the moment…
- That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.
- In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals…
- Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals…
- The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we…
- Can you look at a flower without thinking?
- No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you…
- All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
- A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
- You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
- Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has…
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