Best 17 quotes in «indirect quotes» category

My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

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

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

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

Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.

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

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.

Abuse is an indirect species of homage.

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

There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication.

Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.

Saying indirect Thanks, or something, change not its precision and value, so thank You; love You.

I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us.

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.