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Dr. Spencer Reid Quotes

Total quotes: 30
“I don't believe that intelligence can be accurately quantified, but I do have an IQ of 187, an eidetic memory, and can read 20,000 words per minute. Yes, I'm a genius.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 1: Extreme Aggressor
Tagged: Genius, Intelligence, Quantifying Intelligence
“Lila, believe me when I say this, I've never known a normal day in my entire life.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 1: Somebody's Watching
Tagged: normalcy, abnormal
“Evil can't be scientifically defined. It's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably linked to religion and mythology.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Our Darkest Hour
Tagged: Beyond Good and Evil, Good, Evil, Religion, Mythology, Unquantifiable
“Depression is a vicious cycle. It frequently manifests itself in the degradation of one's personal living environment, which in turn, fuels the depression, which then worsens the living environment.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 7: From Childhood's Hour
Tagged: Depression, Vicious Cycle
“The number of pathogens passed during a handshake is staggering. It's actually safer to kiss.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 8: Restoration
Tagged: Pathogens, Handshake, Germophobia, Kissing
“Moral vigilantism typically has its roots in repression and guilt. This generally manifests itself in low self-esteem and self-loathing. By punishing others, the unsub may also be punishing himself.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: In The Blood
Tagged: Moral Vigilantism, Guilt, Repression, Low self-esteem, Self-Loathing
“Reid: No one gets therapy these days without a healthy dose of medication.


Garcia: What are you implying, Reid?



Reid: That everyone is medicated.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 1: The Fox
Tagged: medication, therapy
“Referring to oneself in the third person is not uncommon for an unsub. Ted Bundy gave thoroughly detailed accounts of his murders, but he never actually admitted doing any of them, he'd just say, ‘the killer.’”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 2: The Big Game
Tagged: Ted Bundy, Third Person, Murder
“Sometimes for an artist, the only difference between insanity and genius is success.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 3: True Night
Tagged: Insanity, Genius, Success, Genius In Madness, The Mad Genius, Quote of the Moment
“You know, 14 is when we start to make our own musical choices. Our cognitive development evolves at that age and we start to form our own cultural identity.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 7: Unknown Subject
Tagged: Teen Years, Adolescence, Age 14, Cultural Identity
“Medieval medical practitioners believed that chickens could absorb illness. They would rub the birds all over the bodies of the diseased in an attempt to rid them of their sickness.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 13: Submerged
Tagged: Medieval Europe, Illness, sickness, Quack Cures, Folk Medicine
“Well, the brain is a machine, designed to respond to stimuli. You keep the brain awake but the body immobile, it breaks down, loses its hair. After two months it eventually strokes out.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 5: The Uncanny Valley
Tagged: Ghost in the Machine, Brain, Machine, Stroke
“Dr. Spencer Reid: Contrary to popular belief, decapitation is not that easy.

David Rossi: Hmm. You don't often hear 'popular' and 'decapitation' in the same sentence.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Rite of Passage
Tagged: Decapitation, Popular
“Hotch, repetitive thinking is a death mill for the brain. For complete brain usage, diverse stimulation is the key.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 1: Unfinished Business
Tagged: Repetitive Thinking, Diverse Stimulation
“I guess now I know what a parent feels like when their kid grows up. Someone who's depended on you for so long and then suddenly they're off living their own life and they don't really need you anymore.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: Persuasion
Tagged: Empty Nest Syndrome
“You know Garcia, she carries a laptop, not a gun. She can't even look at crime scene photos without needing pictures of panda bears to counter balance them.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 10: Burn
Tagged: Laptop, Gun, Crime Scene Photos
“Nothing violates one's sense of security more than being attacked in their own home.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 8: The Gathering
Tagged: Burglary, Security
“Reid: I don't know everything. I mean, despite the fact that you think that I do.


Morgan: I never said that. When have I ever said that?



Reid: Every day since I met you!”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 1: Broken Mirror
Tagged: Know it alls, Omniscience
“Typically, voyeurs are nonviolent and content to remain bystanders.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: Gatekeeper
Tagged: Voyeurs, Bystanders
“I never have any normal fans.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 4: Masterpiece
Tagged: Normal Fans, Funny
“Dr. Spencer Reid: All right, try looking for thefts involving body parts, specifically left legs.



Penelope Garcia: Okay. See, this is why I can't talk about how my day was at dinner. Breakfast, lunch.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 7: There's No Place Like Home
Tagged: Body Parts, Gross, Nauseating
“To get away with murder, you simply don't tell anyone.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 2: No Way Out
Tagged: Murder, Confidentiality
“The Afro-Caribbean syncretic religions began when slaves mixed their traditional religions with Catholicism in order to camouflage them. The elements in this altar look to me like Santeria. It's a Yoruban-based religion developed in Cuba. Practitioners worship Orishas, deities that roughly correspond with Catholic saints.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 6: Corazon
Tagged: Afro-Caribbean, syncretic religions, Catholicism, Santeria, Yoruba, saints
“Bullying leaves lasting scars.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 12: The Anti-Terror Squad
Tagged: Buillying, Trauma, Scars
“The interchange between the 405 and the 101 freeways is consistently rated the worst interchange in the entire world.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 3: True Night
Tagged: California Highways, TV Quotes
“Arsonists are often mission based. They need to make sure their first fire has burnt out before they set another one. They're also highly disciplined and focused. If conditions aren't right to set a fire or, in this case, slash a throat, they'll move on.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Public Enemy
Tagged: Arson, Discipline, Focus, Arsonists
“She obviously did nothing to protect Amber from the abuse. She...she feels betrayed by her mother and now receives extreme sadistic pleasure in watching the same thing that happened to her. Strange. In this case, the abused actually became the abuser.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 2: The Perfect Storm
Tagged: Abuse, Child Abuse, Sadism, Revenge
“The cool thing about Halloween is that it's a uniquely American holiday. I mean, despite its obvious origins in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian All Saints' Day, it really is a melting pot of various immigrants' traditions and beliefs. It became a little more commercialized in the 1950s with trick-or-treat, and today it rivals only Christmas in terms of popularity.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 6: Devil's Night
Tagged: Halloween, Celtic, Christian, All Saints' Day, Christmas
“The Mountain Man seems to be a confluence of several local legends. Some say he's part of the backwoods Appalachian population, others say he's a confederate holdout trying to start a second civil war to turn brother against brother. But the one thing they all could agree upon is that when you go into a darkened bathroom and you chant "I hate The Mountain Man" three times, he'll pop up behind you and kill you the next time you hear Lynyrd Skynyrd on the radio!”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: Blood Relations
Tagged: Mountain Man, Appalachia, Civil War, Lynyrd Skynyrd, folklore
“I'm gonna walk you through a scenario and your face is gonna tell me how close I am. From the moment I arrested you, you watched and waited for the right time to take your revenge. When you learned I was going to Mexico, you took it. You and Lindsey framed me for murder so I'd be put in prison and treated like a criminal, and then you kidnapped my mother so I would know how it feels to have a parent manipulated, because you want to prove that you and I are the same. Am I right?”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 12: Red Light
Tagged: Mexico, Prison, manipulation
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