Robert M. Pirsig Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

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

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Science, Discovery

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins

• Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Health, Independence

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

• I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was 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.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Real, Thinking

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins

• The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Simple, Rationality

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

• 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.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Liars, Doors

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