Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

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 around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.