Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

We read books to find out who we are.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

My personality doesn't interest me.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.