“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”
Source: The Story of My Life (1932), Ch. 4 "Called To The Bar"
“It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Variant: A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Context: It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
“The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.”
"Fifth Talk in The Oak Grove, 11 June 1944" http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=173&chid=4529&w=%22To+understand+oneself+requires+patience%22&s=Text, J. Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 440611, Vol. III, p. 219
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Context: To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
Source: Why I Am An Agnostic and Other Essays
“Confusion is the beginning of wisdom.”
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 60, “Values and Knowledge” (p. 236)
“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
