"There is not first understanding and then action.……" — Jiddu Krishnamurti
"There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action."
—
Jiddu Krishnamurti
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
473 Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti has 473 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a…
-
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation,…
-
Without freedom, there is no creation.
-
As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and…
-
Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of…
-
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is…
-
It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.
-
Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of…
-
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great…
-
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture…
-
The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.
-
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and…
See all 473 quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti »
More Action Quotes
This quote is filed under Action Quotes,
one of 8,300 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
-
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
-
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
-
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
-
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
-
Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
-
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
-
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
-
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
See all 8,300 Action Quotes »