Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

The only journey is the one within.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

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.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.