Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Ideas Quotes, People Quotes

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.

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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

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The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

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Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they're going to steal it.

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Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

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