Best 60 Jordan Peterson Quotes
We have curated a list of the best quotes from Jordan Peterson. Let’s get a look at the quotes.
Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian author, professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, and YouTube personality. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos which is his second book, was promoted with a world tour and it became a bestseller in several countries.
He is also a very famous Youtube personality and these days he is actively into Podcasting. Anyways, we talked about the writer now let’s get into the list of the Quotes by Jordan Peterson.
List of Best Quotes from Jordan Peterson:
1. “I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
2. “When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
3. “You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
4. “If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
5. “And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
6. “If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
7. “It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
8. “Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say “Well it’s only symbolic that women are nature”, it’s like no, it’s not just symbolic. The woman is the gatekeeper to reproductive success. And you can’t get more like nature than that, in fact it’s the very definition of nature.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
9. “No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
10. “To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
11. “Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
12. “The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
13. “Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
14. “Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
15. “RULE 4 COMPARE YOURSELF TO WHO YOU WERE YESTERDAY, NOT TO WHO SOMEONE ELSE IS TODAY”
― Jordan B. Peterson
16. “You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).”
― Jordan B. Peterson
17. “If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
18. “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
19. “In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centered cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
20. “In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
21. “If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
22. “You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you aare always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
23. “The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
24. “You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay”
― Jordan B. Peterson
25. “Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
26. “So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
27. “The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
28. “Always place your becoming above your current being.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
29. “Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate”
― Jordan B. Peterson
30. “There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
31. “People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
32. “It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world—a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one—is to fix yourself,”
― Jordan B. Peterson
33. “Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
34. “We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown— and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
― Jordan B. Peterson
35. “The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
36. “The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do, but are avoiding.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
37. “if you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences—and infer the motivation.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
38. “Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
39. “Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
40. “We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
41. “Don’t use language instrumentally”
― Jordan B. Peterson
42. “What you aim at determines what you see.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
43. “If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
44. “Worthlessness is the default condition.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
45. “Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
46. “We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. We must each tell the truth and repair what is in disrepair and break down and recreate what is old and outdated. It is in this manner that we can and must reduce the suffering that poisons the world. It’s asking a lot. It’s asking for everything.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
47. “If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
48. “It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
49. “It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
50. “Mark Twain once said, “It’s not what we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
51. “Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
52. “It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
53. “If you remember that something bad happened, and you can figure out why, then you can try to avoid that bad thing happening again. That’s the purpose of memory. It’s not “to remember the past.” It’s to stop the same damn thing from happening over and over.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
54. “It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father’s funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
55. “There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
56. “When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
57. “you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
58. “It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
59. “we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness,”
― Jordan B. Peterson
60. “One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
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Sourabh Sharma is a hobbyist book reader, Entrepreneur, and a literature student at Delhi University. A blog writer by day and a book reader by night, he is oathed to discuss himself in a third person but can be persuaded to do so from time to time.
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