Intuition famous quotes

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.
-- Abdellatif Laabi

#Intuition #Evolution #Conformity

The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
-- Ada Leverson

#Real #Men #Intuition

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
-- Ada Leverson

#Women #Intuition #Quality

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
-- Adrian Lyne

#Iron #Interesting #Intuition

Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner), having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others ("autrui", Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.
-- African Spir

#Smell #Intuition #Trying

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.
-- Agatha Christie

#Children #Reading #Intuition

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
-- Agatha Christie

#Women #Knowing #Intuition

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
-- Alain de Botton

#Real #Judgement #Intuition

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.
-- Alan Arkin

#Book #Reading #Intuition

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
-- Alan Turing

#Exercise #Two #Intuition

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
-- Albert Camus

#Law #Intuition #Definitions

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.
-- Albert Einstein

#Science #Discovery #Intuition

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
-- Albert Einstein

#Creativity #Ideas #Intuition

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
-- Albert Einstein

#People #Intuition #Talent

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Intuition #Language #Spite

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Time #Intuition #Duration

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
-- Alec Wilkinson

#Intuition #Chance #Fortune

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

#Reality #Perception #Intuition

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

#Greatness #Men #Intuition

First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition.
-- Alisher Usmanov

#Years #Feelings #Intuition

Don't ever second-guess a strong feeling that you have. Trust your gut.
-- Allison DuBois

#Strong #Feelings #Intuition

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have
-- Alonzo King

#Art #Intuition #Form

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Intuition #Speak #Instinct

I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.
-- Amy Tan

#Intuition #Emotion #Breathless

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.
-- Andre Weil

#Mean #Intuition #Connections

Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.
-- Andrea Camilleri

#True Friend #Real #Intuition

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.
-- Andrew Lo

#Money #Intuition #Needs

Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Knowing #Feelings #Intuition

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.
-- Anna Netrebko

#Mistake #Feelings #Intuition

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
-- Anne Lamott

#Space #Intuition #Mind

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
-- Anne Lamott

#Space #Giving #Intuition

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
-- Anne Lamott

#Inspirational Life #Feet #Intuition

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.
-- Anne Stevenson

#Eye #Intuition #Judgment

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
-- Aristotle

#Knowledge #Intuition #Source

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
-- Armistead Maupin

#Thinking #Intuition #Storytelling

Intuition is the soul within the soul.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch

#Soul #Intuition

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch

#Mother #Intuition #Reason

There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.
-- Arthur C. Brooks

#Intuition #Generations #Research

Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.
-- Arthur Japin

#Choices #Intuition #Remember

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Intellectual #Intuition #Excellence

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.
-- Atul Gawande

#Pain #Medicine #Intuition

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
-- Austin Kleon

#Teaching #Mean #Intuition

Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands...
-- Barbara Hepworth

#Integrity #Ideas #Intuition

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
-- Bear Grylls

#Night #Voice #Intuition

The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.
-- Ben Shahn

#Art #Intuition #Born

My #‎ intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
-- Ben Whishaw

#Thinking #Intuition #Stuff

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
-- Bernie Siegel

#Intuition #Favors #Limits

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Believe #Men #Intuition

The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Agreement #Creative #Intuition

Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.
-- Bette Howland

#Passion #Intuition #Reason

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
-- Betty Williams

#Powerful #Compassion #Intuition

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
-- Bill Bradley

#Creativity #Imagination #Intuition

The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You don't share your life with a woman's body, you share your life with a woman.
-- Brent Weeks

#Intuition #Body #Firsts

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
-- Brian May

#People #Intuition #Listening

Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.
-- Camille Paglia

#Eye #Space #Intuition

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
-- Carl Jung

#Ideas #Intuition #Perception

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.
-- Carl Jung

#Intuition #Doe #Reason

It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#Wisdom #Intuition #Fruit

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Giving #Childhood #Intuition

Intuition is a strong feminine quality.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Strong #Intuition #Quality

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
-- Cathy Guisewite

#Mother #Intuition

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
-- Charles Darwin

#Essence #Intuition #Transcendentalism

Trust your intuition and be guided by love.
-- Charles Eisenstein

#Intuition #Trust Your Intuition

For me, intuition comes from experience. After years of experience, a person will have, if they have been paying attention and revising their thinking and behavior, intuitions about their area of experience.
-- Charles Faulkner

#Thinking #Years #Intuition

The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market.
-- Charles Faulkner

#Understanding #Intuition #Typical

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.
-- Charles Hard Townes

#Believe #Intuition #Atheism

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Love #Relationship #Intuition

The more I trust my intuition and act on its wisdom, the more extraordinary my life becomes.
-- Cheryl Richardson

#Intuition #Extraordinary

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.
-- Chris Hedges

#Real #America #Intuition

Reason is the servant of instinct.
-- Clarence Day

#Intuition #Reason #Instinct

I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.
-- Clarice Lispector

#Distance #Sadness #Intuition

A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before ou will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#Self #Soul #Intuition

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
-- Clifford Geertz

#Mean #Thinking #Intuition

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
-- Corliss Lamont

#Giving #Intuition #Free Will

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

#Intuition #Doe #Philosopher

It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.
-- Costa Georgiadis

#Garden #Intuition #Facts

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.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Intuition #Mind #Body

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

#Beauty #Sex #Intuition

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.
-- Daniel Kahneman

#Ideas #Feelings #Intuition

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.
-- Daniel Tammet

#Intuition #Important #Needs

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...
-- Daphne du Maurier

#Marriage #Men #Intuition

An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list of symbols, an explicit set of rules governing their cohabitation, an explicit list of axioms, and, above all, an explicit list of rules explicitly governing the steps that the mathematician may take in going from assumptions to conclusions. No appeal to meaning nor to intuition. Symbols lose their referential powers; inferences become mechanical.
-- David Berlinski

#Eye #Hands #Intuition

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.
-- David Byrne

#People #Creative #Intuition

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.
-- David Hilbert

#Understanding #Consistency #Intuition

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
-- David Lynch

#Intuition #Tails #Way

You don't dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems-knowing when it's not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel correct for you. That capacity grows and things go much more smoothly.
-- David Lynch

#Ocean #Knowing #Intuition

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

#Believe #Training #Intuition

Listen to your inner voice. Trust your intuition. It's important to have the courage to trust yourself.
-- Dawn Ostroff

#Voice #Intuition #Important

Intuition is seeing with the soul.
-- Dean Koontz

#Soul #Intuition #Instinct

This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.
-- Dean Koontz

#Dog #Real #Intuition

We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what we're not paying attention to. We can find out what's right for us.
-- Dean Ornish

#Teacher #Voice #Intuition

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.
-- Deborah Eisenberg

#Stars #Dancer #Intuition

Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Lying #Heart #Intuition

When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Intuition #Problem #Reason

As intuition grows, the need to make problems and see complications starts to dwindle.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Intuition #Needs #Problem

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.
-- Dino De Laurentiis

#Intuition #Directors #Actors

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.
-- Don Bradley

#Heart #Intuition #Instinct

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.
-- Donald Curtis

#Creativity #Imagination #Intuition

One of our greatest gifts is out intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have - we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.
-- Donna Karan

#Intuition #Needs #Sixth Sense

Feeling stuck or indecisive? Listen to your intuition and make a decision
-- Doreen Virtue

#Decision #Feelings #Intuition