Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

There is nothing in the world that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing. That is a scientific fact, as well as a psychological fact. Because, your leaders—religious and political—and your books—sacred and profane—have all failed, and you are still confused, in misery, in conflict. So, that is an absolute, undeniable fact.

And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you

When you don't trust people all of the sudden you stop trusting anything.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

Nor can you trust in God because everything that you attempt to trust is coming from someone who is not trustworthy to begin with. So everything that you think, feel or act upon is based upon coming from someone who is untrustworthy. Therefore, you'll always be lost.

In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?” said David. “I don't have much faith in anything,” Roland replied. “Not even in myself.”

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.