1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.

Make way for the sweetest humiliation when you underestimate their intelligence while overestimating your knowledge.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.

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