Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

If you want peace, you have to accept the other. Talk to the other, and accept that they have rights.

You can have a great, deep connection with somebody and still disagree with their actions.

I don't have a problem with anybody in Toronto.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.

Love thy neighbor is difficult. That's why everybody - wars, you know. It's the hardest. And it's the most important. And respect thy neighbor. Love and respect. It means respect, really. Respect thy neighbor. Respect the other, the different.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.

To understand all is to forgive all.

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.