Subtle Quotes
Subtle Quote of the day
Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.
Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.
To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.
Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.
There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.
It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
Your heart chakra is not in your physical body. It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with your physical body in this location.
Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.
Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.
The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.
To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.
I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.
The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for
Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.
Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.
Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.