Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

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

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?

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

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.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

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.