Famous Robert M Pirsig Quotes

  • The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. – Robert M Pirsig

    The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.– Robert M Pirsig

  • An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality. – Robert M Pirsig

    An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.– Robert M Pirsig

  • grades really cover up failure to teach. – Robert M Pirsig

    grades really cover up failure to teach.– Robert M Pirsig

  • When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. – Robert M Pirsig

    When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.– Robert M Pirsig

  • This forest silence improves anyone. – Robert M Pirsig

    This forest silence improves anyone.– Robert M Pirsig

  • I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land. – Robert M Pirsig

    I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land.– Robert M Pirsig

  • People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists. – Robert M Pirsig

    People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.– Robert M Pirsig

  • She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before. – Robert M Pirsig

    She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.– Robert M Pirsig

  • My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It’s very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest. – Robert M Pirsig

    My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It’s very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.– Robert M Pirsig

  • I wake up wondering if I know we’re near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air. – Robert M Pirsig

    I wake up wondering if I know we’re near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air.– Robert M Pirsig