Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can't explain it, I realise that's probably because I don't completely understand it myself.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

Understanding is the solution to every problem.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.