Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, / hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you just do it.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustains life, not the top. But of course, without the top, you can't have any sides.

Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over motivation - leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

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

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.