Subtle Quotes

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

~ Francis Bacon

It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisper that only two people can hear.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you live with the limited beliefs of your mind, you cannot see life, beyond the physical existence, while in reality, the life happens at a much deeper level.

~ Roshan Sharma

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

~ John Milton

His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands. The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex. Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasionally fumbles an encounter, a victim of social clumsiness. It's part of being human.To Knight, it all felt impossible. His engagement with the written word might have been the closest he could come to genuine human encounters. The stretch of days between thieving raids allowed him to tumble into the pages, and if he felt transported he could float in bookworld, undisturbed, for as long as he pleased.

~ Michael Finkel

Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.

~ Criss Jami

The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality.

~ Roshan Sharma

Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was, said Patricia Schartle Myrer, because they were 'too subtle', combined with the fact that none of her characters were likeable. 'Perhaps it is because I don't like anyone,' Highsmith replied. 'My last books may be about animals'.

~ Andrew Wilson

Subtle voices’ are those positive or negative words that are subtly spoken into our lives. These ‘subtle voices’, although subtle, are too powerful because they tend to shape our thoughts and inform our actions. That is why it is essential that we be selective of what we allow into our thoughts.

~ D.s. Mashego

True pillar of subtle light embrace humanity between dimensions, they are serene consciousness washing the pains of all soul's.

~ Dave Zebian

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one

~ Josh Stern

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he hadgladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical facultyhousing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a youngboy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.

~ Dan Brown

The problem with radio frequency (RF) exposure is not the small amount of brain tumors, is it the large amount of subtle alterations in the brain that lead to attention, confusion, insomnia and fatigue problems.

~ Steven Magee

I woke to the sound of rain.

~ Sylvia Plath

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.

~ Sherwood Anderson

Emotional illiterates, who don’t recognize the sound of a broken heart, will never be able to hear the subtle vibrations of love reverberating through the rustling flora of life. (Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

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

~ Paul Tournier

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

~ Paul Muni

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

~ Mitch Kapor

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien