intuition quotes

Alan Alda: 

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Albert Einstein: 

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Albert Einstein: 

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Alexis Carrel: 

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Alexis Carrel: 

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Andre Weil: 

Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

Anne Wilson Schaef: 

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Anthony J. D'Angelo: 

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.

Benjamin Spock: 

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Bill Gates: 

Often you have to rely on intuition.

Billy Wilder: 

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Corliss Lamont: 

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Corliss Lamont: 

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

D. H. Lawrence: 

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

D. H. Lawrence: 

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

D. H. Lawrence: 

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence: 

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

David Selby: 

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

Dennis Prager: 

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

Farrah Fawcett: 

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Felix Klein: 

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Florence Scovel Shinn: 

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Fred Frith: 

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

Freeman Thomas: 

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

G. K. Chesterton: 

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

George Jean Nathan: 

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

Henri Bergson: 

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Henry Reed: 

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Herb Goldberg: 

The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the greatest challenge of all. His conditioning has been so powerful that it has all but destroyed his ability to be self-aware.

Holbrook Jackson: 

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Honore De Balzac: 

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Immanuel Kant: 

Intuition and concepts constitute ... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Ingrid Bergman: 

You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

Jawaharlal Nehru: 

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Johann Kaspar Lavater: 

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

John Astin: 

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

John Kord Lagemann: 

Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.

John Naisbitt: 

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

Jonas Salk: 

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Joyce Brothers: 

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Jules H. Poincare: 

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Katherine Anne Porter: 

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

Kim Basinger: 

I feel there are two people inside me -- me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

Lao-Tzu: 

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lord Byron: 

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Madame De Girardin: 

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Madeleine L'Engle: 

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Manuel Puig: 

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

Manuel Puig: 

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Margaret Fuller: 

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margery Allingham: 

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

Maurice Ravel: 

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Michael Burke: 

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Minna Antrim: 

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Oprah Winfrey: 

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Phyllis McGinley: 

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe; she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

Plotinus: 

Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Rene Descartes: 

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Richard Courant: 

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Rita Mae Brown: 

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Robert Graves: 

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

Robert Heller: 

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Rudolf Arnheim: 

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Stanley Baldwin: 

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

V. S. Naipaul: 

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

V. S. Naipaul: 

I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

W. L. George: 

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

William James: 

But actions originally prompted by conscious intelligence may grow so automatic by dint of habit as to be apparently unconsciously performed. Standing, walking, buttoning and unbuttoning, piano-playing, talking, even saying one's prayers, may be done when the mind is absorbed in other things. The performances of animal instinct seem semi-automatic, and the reflex acts of self-preservation certainly are so. Yet they resemble intelligent acts in bringing about the same ends at which the animals' consciousness, on other occasions, deliberately aims.

William Wordsworth: 

Faith is a passionate intuition.