Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline.”

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152. “Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.”

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153. “Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decides to go on being wrong.”

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154. “The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.”

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155. “Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.”

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

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157. “They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.”

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158. “Law without reason is criminal.”

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

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

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161. “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.”

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162. “Normality is the new eccentric.”

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

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164. “In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.”

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

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166. “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.”

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

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168. “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.”

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169. “Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”

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

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171. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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176. “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.”

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177. “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.”

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

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179. “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.”

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

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181. “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.”

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

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183. “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.”

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184. “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.”

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

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

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187. “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.”

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

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

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

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191. “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.”

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192. “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.”

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

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194. “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.”

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

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196. “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.”

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

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

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199. “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.”

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200. “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.”

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