Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

I always think there's something you can learn.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but rather, how to get to their own truth.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.