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Criss Jami Quotes - Page 15

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

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

Information, Acquiring Knowledge, Trimming

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.

Religious, Nice, Men

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.15, Criss Jami

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.

Different, Speech, Littles

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.95, Criss Jami

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

Writing, Love Is, People

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.22, Criss Jami

Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.

Pardon

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.30, Criss Jami

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.

Sitting Still, Order, Risk

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

Intelligent, People, Needs

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.41, Criss Jami

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

Expectations, Needs, Restitution

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.43, Criss Jami

For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

Christian, Atheist, Disappointment

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Thinking, Genius, Psychopath

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.77, Criss Jami

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

Self, Needs, Veins

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.113, Criss Jami

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

Art, Enjoy, Take Me

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.19, Criss Jami

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

Football, Running, Fear

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.101, Criss Jami

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

Men, Weather, Earth

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.38, Criss Jami

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.

Needs, Just Being, Default

Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.38, Criss Jami

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

People, Different, Divine

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.36, Criss Jami

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Heart, People, Guy

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.92, Criss Jami

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy, Neutrality, Easier

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.77, Criss Jami

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

Simple, Roles, Genius

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.94, Criss Jami

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Mouths, Physics, Shouting

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

Class, Judgement, Titles

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.127, Criss Jami

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Worst

Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.66, Criss Jami

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Simplicity, Genius, Vivid

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.124, Criss Jami

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Soul, Your Soul

Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.40, Criss Jami

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Leadership, Asking, Interviews

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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