Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

I hope that people understand that with education, we can be our own superhero.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man.

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.