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Season 1 Quotes
Almost every episode of Criminal Minds begins and ends with a quote. This is a comprehensive list of the quotes
from Season 1, the episodes they were in, and which character said them.

The quotes used on the show might not be the "entire" actual quote written and may be edited
for the shows purposes.
Episode
Quote
Author
Who said it
1x01 "Extreme Aggressor"
(6 quotes)
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of
every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad
Gideon
"All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gideon

"Try again, fail again. Fail better."

Samuel Beckett

Gideon
"Try not, do or do not."
Yoda
Morgan
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see."
Winston Churchill
Gideon
"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gideon
1x02, "Compulsion"
(3 quotes)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination
encircles the world."
Albert Einstein
Gideon
"There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their very nature do not lend themselves
to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are
things that we're trained to look for."
James Reese
Gideon
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better
than yourself."

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Gideon
1x03, "Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1 quote)
"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot
resemble."
Samuel Johnson
Gideon
1x04, "Plain Sight"

(2 quotes)
"Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role is limited to being the one who looks in
the mirror."
Jacques Rigaut
Gideon
"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight
remains to them?"
Rose Kennedy
Gideon
1x05, "Broken Mirror"
(2 quotes)
"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
Euripides
Gideon
"When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, nor worthiness."
Euripides
Gideon
1x06, "L.D.S.K."
(2 quotes)
"The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of
it."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gideon
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."
(attributed to) William Shakespeare
Hotch
1x07, "The Fox"
(1 quote)
"With foxes, we must play the fox."
Thomas Fuller
Gideon
1x08, "Natural Born Killer"
(2 quotes)
"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."
Ernest Hemingway
Gideon
"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into
torturers."
Carl Jung
Gideon
1x09, "Derailed"
(2 quotes)

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind."
Robert Oxton Bolton
Gideon
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?"
Albert Einstein
Reid
1x10, "The Popular Kids"
(2 quotes)
"Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for
nightmares."
Sir Peter Ustinov
Gideon
"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
Eugene Ionesco
Gideon
1x11, "Blood Hungry"
(1 quote)
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gideon
1x12, "What Fresh Hell?"
(2 quotes)
"Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed...and eats at our
table."
W.H. Auden
Gideon
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gideon
1x13, "Poison"
(2 quotes)
"What is food to one is to others bitter poison."
Lucretious
Gideon
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
Confucius
Gideon
1x14, "Riding the Lightning"
(2 quotes)
"Who so sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed."
Genesis 9:6
Gideon

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and
is immortal."
Albert Pine - attributed to Pine, but actually by Mason Albert Pike, from his book Ex Corde
Locutiones: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren (Google Books link)
Gideon
1x15, "Unnished Business"
(3 quotes)
"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
Norman Maclean
Gideon
Who in his mind has not probe the dark water?
"East from Eden" John Steinbeck (here used in a puzzle by the Keystone Killer)
(read by) Reid
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
Sir Francis Bacon (here used in a puzzle by The Keystone Killer and in Max Ryan's book on
page 184).
(read by) Max Ryan
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
Elle
1x16, "The Tribe"
(1 quote)
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hotch
1x17, "A Real Rain"
(3 quotes)
"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."
W.H. Auden
Gideon
"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
Mahatma Gandhi
Gideon
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The
evil it does is permanent."
Mahatma Gandhi
Hotch
1x18, "Somebody's Watching"
(2 quotes)
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."
Diane Arbus

Gideon
"An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such
thing in the country."
George Bernard Shaw
Gideon
1x19, "Machismo"
(2 quotes)
"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."
Anthony Brandt
Hotch
"The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman."
Mexican proverb
Hotch
1x20, "Charm and Harm"
(2 quotes)
"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."
Voltaire
Gideon
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become
disguised to ourselves."
Franois de la Rochefoucauld
Gideon
1x21, "Secrets and Lies"
(2 quotes)
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the eld of truth and knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
Albert Einstein
Gideon
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
Gideon
1x22, "The Fisher King (1)"
(1 quote)
"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
Elbert Hubbard
Gideon
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