Famous Quotes

"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."

Robert M. Pirsig on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

• "Even in the presence of others he was completely alone."

• "Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."

• "To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."

• "To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."

• "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."