Jordan Peterson Quotes

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

After something has run its course, you either become a parody and keep doing it, or tear it down and know the truth about it, warts and all.

Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.