Indirect Quotes

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

— Vera Nazarian

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

— Thomas Browne

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

— Emmet Fox

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

— Martin Walser

Music is an indirect force for change

— Jesse Michaels

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

— J. I. Packer

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

— Alice Mattison

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.

— Orrin Woodward

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

— Miles Franklin

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

— Bertha von Suttner

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

— Ramana Maharshi

I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection…

— Jeet Aulakh

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

— George Orwell

For any business that has an indirect model to move into the direct business is very difficult and very challenging.

— Ted Waitt

A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation.…

— Anonymous

The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause…

— Anonymous

This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way,…

— Charles Jencks

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not…

— Carl Sagan

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that…

— James Rothman

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and…

— Thomas Mann

There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good…

— Julian Baggini

The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense…

— Bertrand Russell

If you own a simple Weber kettle grill, you own a smoker. You don't have to spend an enormous amount of money…

— Steven Raichlen

In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or…

— Theodor Adorno

I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure…

— Davis Schneiderman

Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an…

— Theda Skocpol

“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither…

— Augustus De Morgan

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure…

— Sun Tzu

Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.

— Donald E. Westlake

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.

— Herbert Bayer

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

— Ellen Glasgow

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

— Anonymous

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

— Simone Weil

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

— Anais Nin

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

— Rene Dubos

I don't practise indirect free-kicks, but the technique and how I strike the ball I practise a lot.

— Steph Houghton