Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Silence Quotes

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

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There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

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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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But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

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...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

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My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.

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We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

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I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.

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The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size

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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

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My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

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