Truth Quote by Criss Jami — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else.”

“Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.”

“There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.”

“Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.”

“Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.”

“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”

“Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.”

“I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”

“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!”

“The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.”

“Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?”

“A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.”