1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it’s a secret...

There’s a certain deeper sort of beauty in the bleak. I see it that bleak is beautiful in part because it is too deathly and grim to fathom itself so.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism – one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one’s conscience both clear and at ease.

Because you’re always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

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

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn’t know.

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.

Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels – and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels – who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.