Famous Quotes / Robert M. Pirsig
12 Quotations by Robert M. Pirsig
- 1. Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
- 2. It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jero ...
- 3. It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you just do it.
- 4. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
- 5. Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
- 6. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
- 7. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
- 8. The real train of knowledge isn't a static entity that can be stopped and subdivided. Its always goi ...
- 9. The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you kno ...
- 10. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzz ...
- 11. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not ...
- 12. Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20/20 hindsight. It's good for seein ...