Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 4 of 10

151. “Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.”

— Criss Jami

152. “Law without reason is criminal.”

— Criss Jami

153. “To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.”

— Criss Jami

154. “The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn’t be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It’s the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.”

— Criss Jami

155. “That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.”

— Criss Jami

156. “Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.”

— Criss Jami

157. “Normality is the new eccentric.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

159. “Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”

— Criss Jami

160. “When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.”

— Criss Jami

161. “Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.”

— Criss Jami

162. “Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”

— Criss Jami

163. “The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they’re the ones doing the judging.”

— Criss Jami

164. “It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.”

— Criss Jami

165. “Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

168. “A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.”

— Criss Jami

169. “Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don’t laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.”

— Criss Jami

170. “Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.”

— Criss Jami

171. “Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.”

— Criss Jami

172. “The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”

— Criss Jami

173. “Ultimate prosperity is one’s value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.”

— Criss Jami

174. “I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”

— Criss Jami

175. “The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people’s perception of you rather than people’s perception of you.”

— Criss Jami

176. “All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.”

— Criss Jami

177. “There’s no need to curse God if you’re an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who’ve felt the same.”

— Criss Jami

178. “Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.”

— Criss Jami

179. “I’d rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.”

— Criss Jami

180. “An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.”

— Criss Jami

181. “Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don’t let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you’re part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.”

— Criss Jami

182. “Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.”

— Criss Jami

183. “It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist’s worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.”

— Criss Jami

184. “Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.”

— Criss Jami

185. “People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.”

— Criss Jami

186. “We men are fascinated by the things we don’t really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.”

— Criss Jami

187. “Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.”

— Criss Jami

188. “Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.”

— Criss Jami

189. “The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.”

— Criss Jami

190. “With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one’s confirmation bias.”

— Criss Jami

191. “The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature’s sci-fi.”

— Criss Jami

192. “The trouble with poetry is it’s often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.”

— Criss Jami

193. “Let’s not grow with our roots in the ground.”

— Criss Jami

194. “Those ‘back burner’ thoughts, the ones the brain isn’t quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.”

— Criss Jami

195. “The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.”

— Criss Jami

196. “Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.”

— Criss Jami

197. “Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can’t see when you’re unashamedly looking down on someone.”

— Criss Jami

198. “I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.”

— Criss Jami

199. “What’s simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.”

— Criss Jami

200. “The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”

— Criss Jami