Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it:; once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world.

People don't like to hear the truth out here cause the truth makes them think.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.