Knows Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

11 Knows quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

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Pirsig’s contemplative voice appears in these eleven brief lines, giving a quick glimpse of his blend of logic, quality, and self‑awareness.

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

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No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

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every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.

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Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

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Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

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It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't end that way.

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It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and…

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What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows…

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Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen…

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Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry…

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I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.…

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“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.…

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To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships…

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