Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Robert M. Pirsig quotes, Robert M. Pirsig sayings, and Robert M. Pirsig proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.Robert M. Pirsig
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Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the centre of it all.Robert M. Pirsig
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.Robert M. Pirsig
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.Robert M. Pirsig
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That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.Robert M. Pirsig
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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.Robert M. Pirsig
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We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.Robert M. Pirsig
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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.Robert M. Pirsig
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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.Robert M. Pirsig
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.Robert M. Pirsig
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To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.Robert M. Pirsig
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If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.Robert M. Pirsig
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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.Robert M. Pirsig
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We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.Robert M. Pirsig
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient; Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.Robert M. Pirsig
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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.Robert M. Pirsig
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That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.Robert M. Pirsig
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If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.Robert M. Pirsig
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If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.Robert M. Pirsig
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If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened. Robert M. Pirsig
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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.Robert M. Pirsig
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The more you read, the more you calm down.Robert M. Pirsig
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(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness). Familiarity can blind you too.Robert M. Pirsig
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You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other.Robert M. Pirsig
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there Robert M. Pirsig
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Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.Robert M. Pirsig
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.Robert M. Pirsig