Circuitous Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,…
— Sun Tzu
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There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take…
— Sun Tzu
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the…
— E. O. Wilson
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Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.
— Gail Z. Martin
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
— Victoria Pratt
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Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.
— Frederick Lenz
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I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.
— Geraldine Ferraro
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All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.
— Marcus Aurelius
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God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His…
— Terry Pratchett
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For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous…
— John Calvin
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Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they.…
— William James
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Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom…
— Anne Roiphe
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Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead.…
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional
— Walter Savage Landor
Who Wrote These Circuitous Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Circuitous Quotes as follows: