Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: May 12, 1895 - February 17, 1986

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You can tell when somebody is chosen basketball-wise. You can tell.

Metta World Peace

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I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it's bad news for that country.

Stephane Hessel

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Mary Lasker was an entrepreneur; she was a socialite. She was kind of a legendary networker. She became interested in saying, 'Well, you know, if these diseases don't have political support we'll never conquer them.' And she made, really, cancer her special cause.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

Simon Sinek

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I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Tracy Chevalier

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I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I'm really glad I went.

Roy Lichtenstein

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An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

Michael Leunig

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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

Louis R. Chenevert

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I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

Don Johnson

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I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

Douglas Wood

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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Dorothy Day

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