Jordan Peterson Quotes

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.

I like to be prepared enough to be completely unprepared. I don't know if I make sense, but I have a fantasy of living someone else's life. And to do that perfectly, I need to prepare myself just as properly.

I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision many possible futures for myself where I could be happy, so I just try to keep my passions alive.

I just keep looking for things that are interesting and keep calm as possible about it all, not worrying about being in a 'box.'

I've grown into a woman and formed my own opinions about the world around me.

I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.