1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

I never really saw the celerity of your heartWhen busy fighting off the Kierkegaardian partI listened to PlutarchWhile you threw out something of oursLike humans are shoes you merely use in certain hours

I have a poet's heart: whether manifested through rage or manifested through grace, certain loves never really go away.

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

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.