Monday 13 July 2015

Quotes from the TV series, Criminal Minds, series 1-4

The quotes are from series 1 to series 4. The full list is available at the Criminal Minds wiki page here.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him." - Euripides

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind." - Robert Oxton Bolton

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." - Fredrich Nietzsche

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent"- Mahatma Gandhi

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." - Francois de la Roche Foucauld

"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light" - Plato

"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." - Mahatma Gandhi

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." - G.K. Chesterton

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He's simply the acceptable face of invading realities." - Clive Barker

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.” - Frank Miller

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.” - John Steinbeck

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another." - Antole France

"The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic." - Voltaire

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell." - Thomas Fuller

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles..." - Mark Twain

"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett

“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.” - Mahatma Gandhi


"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it" - Helen Keller