Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.

I'm a cliche.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

I don’t care for ideological people. It’s like those people just want to stop thinking.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma.