Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Tis good-will makes intelligence.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way.

We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance. Whether or not we believe in the existence of the soul, we've all experienced times in which we're fully connected with ourselves.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but in life he behaves very unintelligently. He has a certain expertise, he is trained intellectually to, do a certain thing, his mind is functioning like a computer. But life is not one-dimensional, you cannot exhaust it in one expertise; it is multi-dimensional.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn’t. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don’t leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.

If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.