537 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.

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.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient; Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness). Familiarity can blind you too.

You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there