Jordan Peterson on Growth Quotes

"Humility is the recognition that you don't know everything you need to know."

"The way that you make your life meaningful is by taking as much responsibility as you can possibly bear."

"The discovery of sacrifice allowed us to transcend our animal nature."

"The claim that Western society is a patriarchy is a conspiracy theory. It is a hierarchy of competence, albeit an imperfect one, where value is generated for the community."

"Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't."

"The realization that the future can be bargained with is the greatest discovery of humanity."

"Chaos is the flood. It is the water that rises up to drown the world when we have been careless."

"You must sacrifice who you are for who you could become, and that is a terrifying process."

"You cannot have value without hierarchy. Postmodernists want to destroy hierarchy, but in doing so, they destroy value itself."

"To tell the truth is to bring the most habitable reality into Being."

"If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. And they will push you, and push you, and push you, until you fall over a cliff."

"When you sacrifice, you are paying the price of admission to a better world."

"You have to give up your current self to allow your potential self to emerge."

"The shadow is the part of your personality that reaches down into hell."

"You are not everything you could be, and you know it."

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

"Disagreeable people are tough-minded, blunt, and competitive. They are less likely to be taken advantage of, but they can be difficult to live with."

"If you remove the capacity for people to discuss difficult issues, you leave them only with violence."

"To be able to think, you have to risk being offensive."

"The heavy hand of the state is the negative aspect of the Great Father. It is the structure that has become too rigid and devours its own children."

"The Big Five traits are not social constructs; they are deeply rooted in our biology and are visible in cross-cultural studies everywhere."

"The dragon of chaos is the unknown that guards the treasure."

"The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off."

"It is a rigorous attempt to dismantle the distinction between the objective and the subjective."

"The consequence of not speaking your mind is that you become weak."

"The secret to your existence is right in front of you, and it manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but you are avoiding."

"A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control."

"You have to be able to act like a monster, so that you don't have to."

"You need to grow teeth. You have to have the capacity for danger. If you don't, you are not a moral agent."

"To be a good person, you have to be able to cut someone into pieces, metaphorically speaking, but choose not to."

"Chaos is the potential for growth, but it is also the potential for destruction."

"Postmodernism is the new skin that old Marxism inhabits."

"You have to sacrifice the person you are for the person you could become."