Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. The moment we want to disbelieve anything we have previously believed we suddenly discover not only that there is a mass of evidence against it but that this evidence was starting us in the face all the time.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

People just see what they want to see.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

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

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night