Robert M. Pirsig

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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.

Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth… and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

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.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Let them look up in the sky then…! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars…

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.