Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must die; thoughit is plain we have no further assurance of these facts than what experience affords us.

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.

I'm always preparing for a regular life.

A perfect match ….100% certainty … 100% reliable

And that’s the way it is

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in. No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and everything is going to be the same tomorrow.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

Tomorrow is more sure than just about anything else in the entire world.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

It helps to know there is going to be continuity.

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

The probable is what usually happens.

I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.