Quotes About Subtle

The best style is the style you don't notice.

To what purpose, then, is it that this most learned and most acute man Varro attempts, as it were, with subtle disputation, to reduce and refer all these gods to heaven and earth? He cannot do it. They go out of his hands like water; they shrink back; they slip down and fall.

This exquisite photograph of water in movement...has a very subtle message for us. It is that nature's computers are that which they compute. If one were to take intricate details of wind and tide and so on, and use them...as 'input' to some computer simulating water—what computer would one use, and how express the 'output'? Water itself: that answers both those questions.

Fouché) tan invisible y activo como el mecanismo de un reloj.

what is culture, if not to wheedle from the coarse material of life, by art and love, its finest, its most delicate, its most subtle qualities?

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.

Walter broke off a piece of a smile and tucked it into his left cheek as if reserving it for future use.

A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face.

Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly.

Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done. And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly. This is not a good system for research into those areas of science that affect policy. Even worse, the system works against problem solving. Because if you solve a problem, your funding ends. All that's got to change.

Saben lo que están haciendo. Hay máquinas por doquier. Antes servían al hombre, pero ahora empiezan a dominarle. Muy sutilmente, pero pronto lo lograrán. -Harry Benson-

Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall.

Revealing his past or qualities of his character would have been too loud a gesture.

The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Sahaja Yoga is a very subtle happening within us. It's a very subtle happening. And this subtler happening gives you sensitivity to divine joy.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

Then I can write slowly, re-writing each chapter, carefully with a subtle structured style. If I can ever find a subtle structured style.

His eyes held a subtle light that she could not mistake for anything other than true attraction. The kind that mere friends did not share. She hated it. She loved it. She hated that she loved it.