1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

The height of cleverness is in one’s ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

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.

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

In order to share one’s true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the ‘true colors’ of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one’s natural self.

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

It’s a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

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

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