Criminal Minds · Quotes by reader
Quotes Read by Gideon 47 quotations in Criminal Minds
Gideon (Jason Gideon, played by Mandy Patinkin) reads the opening or closing quotation 47 times across 34 episodes of Criminal Minds, from “Extreme Aggressor” (2005) to “No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank” (2007).
- Season 1 · Episode 1 · Opening quote
Extreme Aggressor
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
- Season 1 · Episode 1 · Closing quote
Extreme Aggressor
“When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.”
- Season 1 · Episode 2 · Opening quote
Compulsion
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
- Season 1 · Episode 2 · Closing quote
Compulsion
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
- Season 1 · Episode 3 · Opening quote
Won't Get Fooled Again
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
- Season 1 · Episode 4 · Opening quote
Plain Sight
“Don’t forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.”
- Season 1 · Episode 4 · Closing quote
Plain Sight
“Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”
- Season 1 · Episode 5 · Opening quote
Broken Mirror
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”
- Season 1 · Episode 5 · Closing quote
Broken Mirror
“When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.”
- Season 1 · Episode 6 · Opening quote
L.D.S.K.
“The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it.”
- Season 1 · Episode 7 · Opening quote
The Fox
“With foxes, we must play the fox.”
- Season 1 · Episode 8 · Opening quote
Natural Born Killer
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else.”
- Season 1 · Episode 8 · Closing quote
Natural Born Killer
“The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
- Season 1 · Episode 9 · Opening quote
Derailed
“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.”
- Season 1 · Episode 10 · Opening quote
The Popular Kids
“Unfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.”
- Season 1 · Episode 10 · Closing quote
The Popular Kids
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
- Season 1 · Episode 11 · Closing quote
Blood Hungry
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
- Season 1 · Episode 12 · Opening quote
What Fresh Hell?
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed, and eats at our table.”
- Season 1 · Episode 12 · Closing quote
What Fresh Hell?
“Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.”
- Season 1 · Episode 13 · Opening quote
Poison
“What is food to one is to others bitter poison.”
- Season 1 · Episode 13 · Closing quote
Poison
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
- Season 1 · Episode 14 · Opening quote
Riding the Lightning
“Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.”
- Season 1 · Episode 14 · Closing quote
Riding the Lightning
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
- Season 1 · Episode 15 · Opening quote
Unfinished Business
“It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”
- Season 1 · Episode 17 · Opening quote
A Real Rain
“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.”
- Season 1 · Episode 18 · Opening quote
Somebody's Watching
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”
- Season 1 · Episode 18 · Closing quote
Somebody's Watching
“An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.”
- Season 1 · Episode 20 · Opening quote
Charm and Harm
“There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.”
- Season 1 · Episode 20 · Closing quote
Charm and Harm
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.”
- Season 1 · Episode 21 · Opening quote
Secrets and Lies
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
- Season 1 · Episode 21 · Closing quote
Secrets and Lies
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
- Season 1 · Episode 22 · Opening quote
The Fisher King: Part 1
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
- Season 2 · Episode 1 · Opening quote
The Fisher King: Part 2
“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.”
- Season 2 · Episode 2 · Opening quote
P911
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
- Season 2 · Episode 3 · Opening quote
The Perfect Storm
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
- Season 2 · Episode 5 · Opening quote
Aftermath
“Although the world is full of suffering, but it is also full of overcoming it.”
- Season 2 · Episode 8 · Opening quote
Empty Planet
“Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.”
- Season 2 · Episode 9 · Opening quote
The Last Word
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
- Season 2 · Episode 10 · Opening quote
Lessons Learned
“Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.”
- Season 2 · Episode 10 · Closing quote
Lessons Learned
“In order to learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear.”
- Season 2 · Episode 13 · Opening quote
No Way Out
“Evil brings men together.”
- Season 2 · Episode 14 · Opening quote
The Big Game
“I didn’t have anything against them, and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they’re just the ones who have to pay for it.”
- Season 2 · Episode 16 · Opening quote
Fear and Loathing
“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”
- Season 2 · Episode 17 · Opening quote
Distress
“Our life is made by the death of others.”
- Season 2 · Episode 18 · Opening quote
Jones
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
- Season 2 · Episode 21 · Opening quote
Open Season
“One man’s wilderness is another man’s theme park.”
- Season 2 · Episode 23 · Opening quote
No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects.”