Subtle Quotes - Page 3

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.

Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings.