Jordan Peterson (Jordan Bernt Peterson) Quotes

When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.

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• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Spirit
  • Vote
  • Suffrage

• Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

  

  Baby Face Willette
  • Real
  • Love
  • Hurt

• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Kindness
  • Late

• When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Good
  • Why
  • Air

• I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Love

• Like any bully, Putin only picks fights that he is sure he can win. History tells us that sooner or later, he will become so overconfident, so accustomed to his opponents folding their cards against his weak hand, that he will overstep, potentially resulting in a catastrophe on a global scale.

  Garry Kasparov
  • History
  • Hand

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Today

• Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

  

  Fred Wilson

• It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Important
  • Political

• I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

  

  Amanda Burton
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Everyday

• If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

  

  Marisol Nichols
  • German

• What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?

  

  Peter Maurer
  • World
  • Law

• The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Words
  • Deception

• Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Complaining

• If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.

  

  James Spader
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

  

  Michel de Montaigne
  • Wisdom
  • Sign
  • Cheerfulness

• We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Wisdom
  • Pray
  • Fulfillment of Gods

• When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.

  

  Jordan Peterson
  • Wisdom
  • Snake