Circuitous Quotes

16 quotes by 14 authors

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
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
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor
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
Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route. — Gail Z. Martin
I came to acting in a very circuitous way. — Victoria Pratt
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
Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally. — Frederick Lenz
I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer. — Geraldine Ferraro
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: