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 PETERSONIdeologies 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.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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.
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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. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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