Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

You are bound to pick up influences.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.

Because we're brought into the world or educated in a certain way, we're trained to accept the world in a certain way.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

Way too many people are trying to do the same thing with their lives.

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.