Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.”

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302. “Pure wisdom is the ‘fruit of life’; banal platitudes are the ‘bane of existence’.”

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303. “When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you’ve spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can’t help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.”

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304. “I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.”

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305. “Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.”

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306. “Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.”

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307. “It’s not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you’re honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”

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308. “Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.”

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309. “You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.”

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310. “Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.”

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311. “Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.”

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312. “Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.”

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313. “One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn’t care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.”

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314. “When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as ‘too good to be true.’ They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.”

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315. “I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.”

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316. “I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.”

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317. “When you’re appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone’s need for your approval.”

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318. “Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.”

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319. “The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”

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320. “What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”

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321. “Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.”

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322. “It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”

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323. “When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.”

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324. “One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.”

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325. “God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”

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326. “Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.’”

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327. “There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...”

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328. “Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.”

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329. “It’s a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond requires a degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.”

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330. “The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.”

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331. “Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don’t argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.”

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332. “That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.”

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333. “Anger’s like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me.”

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334. “As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it’s only evident that they’re learning from you. Maybe you taste bad – kind of like medicine, kind of like truth – and to them, you’re thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.”

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335. “What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.”

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336. “Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: ‘I must stop him before he stops me.’ In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.”

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337. “Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.”

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338. “Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes.”

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339. “Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.”

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340. “All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.”

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341. “When you’re truly awesome, you know that it’s actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.”

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342. “Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.”

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343. “Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I’ll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.”

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344. “The introvert’s anthem for not wanting to hang out is ‘It’s not you; it’s me.”

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345. “The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.”

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346. “Christ didn’t join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.”

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347. “Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually – greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.”

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348. “What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.”

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349. “The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.”

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350. “Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.”

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