The place to improve the world is first in one's o... -Robert M. Pirsig

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig , Philosopher
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Robert M. Pirsig Quotes to Explore

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands....
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, ca...
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling....
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....
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness....
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do....
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone....
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions....

Brainy Quotes to Explore

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, o...
I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds we...
The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught....
The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of H...
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing ...
Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started notici...
Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive....
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reass...
I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the footbal...
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts....