Subtlety Quotes
151 quotes by 143 authors
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
— Isaac Asimov
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
— Francis Bacon
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of…
— Kate Chopin
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!
— Sun Tzu
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The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention…
— Bob Toski
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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without…
— Francis Bacon
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a…
— John Stuart Mill
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When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be…
— Elihu Root
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen…
— Alice Meynell
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Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings;…
— John Owen
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But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around…
— Eda LeShan
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The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival…
— Rick Stein
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And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the…
— Robert Boyle
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If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly…
— Christine de Pizan
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Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through…
— F. David Peat
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise…
— Joseph Story
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Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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