Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Act first, explain later.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that intersubjective accord occurs only in the noosphere. Anything short of that noospheric accord will continue to destroy the biosphere.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

Any issue, including political, economic and religious activities human beings pursue in this world, should be fully understood before we pass our judgement. Therefore, it is very important to know the causes. Whatever the issue, we should be able to see the complete picture. This will enable us to comprehend the whole story.

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

There was no time to think, I just hit it

The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.

If we can get to the truth, we can change anything.

I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

Don´t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.

The progress has to start now.

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.