Jiddu Krishnamurti Famous Quotes
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms."
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotations
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
"From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends."
Hilaire Belloc
"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
George Sand
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Bob Robert Alan Edwards
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
Fred Thompson
"A quiz If I am my brother's keeper, who am I (Answer me.)"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
Charles Caleb Colton
"Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet."
Jeff Melvoin
"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
Samuel Johnson