JORDAN PETERSON

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination.

It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.

We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?

It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'