Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.”

— Criss Jami

52. “What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.”

— Criss Jami

53. “If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk – it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.”

— Criss Jami

54. “An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.”

— Criss Jami

55. “The devil’s happy when the critics run you off.”

— Criss Jami

56. “Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.”

— Criss Jami

57. “When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn’t climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”

— Criss Jami

58. “The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.”

— Criss Jami

59. “If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”

— Criss Jami

60. “Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.”

— Criss Jami

61. “Old words are reborn with new faces.”

— Criss Jami

62. “Feel what it’s like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you’ll forever think twice before wasting food.”

— Criss Jami

63. “I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”

— Criss Jami

64. “Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.”

— Criss Jami

65. “Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.”

— Criss Jami

66. “The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.”

— Criss Jami

67. “Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.”

— Criss Jami

68. “Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.”

— Criss Jami

69. “Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”

— Criss Jami

70. “I’m convinced that most men don’t know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man’s atrocities, but wouldn’t dream of imprisoning a mother for her son’s crime?”

— Criss Jami

71. “Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.”

— Criss Jami

72. “Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.”

— Criss Jami

73. “Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman’s physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man’s mental safety.”

— Criss Jami

74. “I will never deny that life isn’t fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.”

— Criss Jami

75. “I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.”

— Criss Jami

76. “The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.”

— Criss Jami

77. “The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.”

— Criss Jami

78. “Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.”

— Criss Jami

79. “At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.”

— Criss Jami

80. “Beware: open-mindedness will often say, ‘Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.’”

— Criss Jami

81. “God’s judgment is not like man’s judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.”

— Criss Jami

82. “A wise man’s goal shouldn’t be to say something profound, but to say something useful.”

— Criss Jami

83. “In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.”

— Criss Jami

84. “My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.”

— Criss Jami

85. “The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.”

— Criss Jami

86. “Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.”

— Criss Jami

87. “When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”

— Criss Jami

88. “I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.”

— Criss Jami

89. “A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.”

— Criss Jami

90. “Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”

— Criss Jami

91. “As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”

— Criss Jami

92. “Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.”

— Criss Jami

93. “To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.”

— Criss Jami

94. “You are evidence of your mother’s strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.”

— Criss Jami

95. “If ever you feel like an animal among men be a lion.”

— Criss Jami

96. “When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”

— Criss Jami

97. “The thing about stereotyping is it’s usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.”

— Criss Jami

98. “If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”

— Criss Jami

99. “Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man’s true worth.”

— Criss Jami

100. “If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.”

— Criss Jami