If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
JORDAN PETERSONDon’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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